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Hiding in the Mobile Crowd: Location Privacy through Collaboration

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Hiding in the Mobile Crowd: Location Privacy through Collaboration

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Panagiotis Papadimitratos, Reza Shokri, Georgios Theodorakopoulos, Ehsan Kazemi

Location-aware smartphones support various location-based services (LBSs): users query the LBS server and learn on the fly about their surroundings. However, such queries give away private information, enabling the LBS to track users. We address this probl ...

Ieee Computer Soc2014

By the end of 2013, the number of internet-connected mobile devices is expected to exceed that of humans. Omnipresent and context-aware, mobile devices enable people to communicate and exchange data anytime and almost anywhere. The myriad of ”digital footp ...

EPFL2014

Quantifying the Effect of Co-location Information on Location Privacy

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Kévin Clément Huguenin, Reza Shokri, Alexandra-Mihaela Olteanu

Mobile users increasingly report their co-locations with other users, in addition to revealing their locations to online services. For instance, they tag the names of the friends they are with, in the messages and in the pictures they post on social networ ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2014

Recent developments in information and communication technologies have been profound and life-changing. Most people are now equipped with smart phones with high computation power and communication capabilities. These devices can efficiently run multiple so ...

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How Others Compromise Your Location Privacy: The Case of Shared Public IPs at Hotspots

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Kévin Clément Huguenin, Nevena Vratonjic, Vincent Bindschaedler

Location privacy has been extensively studied over the last few years, especially in the context of location-based services where users purposely disclose their location to benefit from convenient context-aware services. To date, however, little attention ...

2013

EPFL2012

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The mainstream approach to protecting the location-privacy of mobile users in location-based services (LBSs) is to alter the users' actual locations in order to reduce the location information exposed to the service provider. The location obfuscation algor ...

2012

Track Me If You Can: On the Effectiveness of Context-based Identifier Changes in Deployed Mobile Networks

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Imad Aad, Murtuza Jadliwala, Igor Bilogrevic, Valtteri Niemi, Laurent Bindschaedler

Location privacy is a major concern in an increasingly connected and highly pervasive network of mobile users. Novel location-based applications and device-to-device services (on these mobile devices) are gaining popularity, but at the same time, these ser ...

Internet Society2012