Location privacy: The challenges of mobile service devices

I’m Here! Privacy Challenges in Mobile Location Sharing

With the availability of GPS receivers in more and more mobile handsets, location sharing has become the next mobile killer-app. Services like Google Latitude or Yahoo’s FireEagle are used by thousands of subscribers to share their current location in real-time with their family, their friends, or even publish it online, while Sense Network’s CitySense application uses live movement traces from...

Privacy-Preserving Location-Based Service Scheme for Mobile Sensing Data †

With the wide use of mobile sensing application, more and more location-embedded data are collected and stored in mobile clouds, such as iCloud, Samsung cloud, etc. Using these data, the cloud service provider (CSP) can provide location-based service (LBS) for users. However, the mobile cloud is untrustworthy. The privacy concerns force the sensitive locations to be stored on the mobile cloud i...

Privacy Challenges in Smart Devices

The number of smart devices around us continues to increase as we enter the era of ubiquitous computing. These devices typically use various sensors, store data about the user, and connect to the Internet. They are also very personal: we bring them around with us, or have them in our homes or workplaces. As a result, these devices pose novel privacy risks. The most prominent example of such a d...

Location Privacy in Mobile IPv6

The Mobile IPv6 protocol includes a route optimization mechanism that improves routing efficiency by informing correspondent nodes about the current care-of address of the mobile node. Mobile node physical location may be associated with its topologically correct IP address. Revealing the mobile node’s care-of address can therefore be used to track the mobile with certain accuracy, which compro...

MLS, Mobile Location Service