Constructing elastic distinguishability metrics for location privacy

Constructing elastic distinguishability metrics for location privacy

With the increasing popularity of hand-held devices, location-based applications and services have access to accurate and real-time location information, raising serious privacy concerns for their users. The recently introduced notion of geo-indistinguishability tries to address this problem by adapting the well-known concept of differential privacy to the area of location-based systems. Althou...

Quantum Coding Theorem from Privacy and Distinguishability

Location Depersonalization for Location Privacy Protection in Location-Based Services

A spatial region with K different footprints indicates that it has been visited by K different people. An adversary may be able to identify all these users, but will not know who was there at what time. This observation gives us a new direction to investigate location depersonalization in location-based services (LBSs). We propose to leverage users’ historical location samples, each being a foo...

Location cloaking for location privacy protection and location safety protection

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Uniform Obfuscation for Location Privacy

As location-based services emerge, many people feel exposed to high privacy threats. Privacy protection is a major challenge for such applications. A broadly used approach is perturbation, which adds an artificial noise to positions and returns an obfuscated measurement to the requester. Our main finding is that, unless the noise is chosen properly, these methods do not withstand attacks based ...