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Privacy in Location-Based Applications: Research Issues and Emerging Trends by Claudio Bettini, Sushil Jajodia, Pierangela Samarati, X. Sean Wang
English | PDF(True) | 2009 | 223 Pages | ISBN : 3642035108 | 5.29 MB
Location-based applications refer to those that use location data in a prominent manner. Location data can be very effective for service provisioning, enabling the birth of a new generation of information services. Although data security and privacy issues have been extensively investigated in several domains, current techniques are not readily applicable to location-based applications. Conciliating the effectiveness of these applications with privacy concerns constitutes a unique challenge, mostly due to the semantic richness of location and time information. Research in this field involves aspects of spatio-temporal reasoning, query processing, system security, statistical inference, and more importantly, anonymization techniques. Several research groups have been working in recent years to identify privacy attacks and defense techniques in this domain.