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Hiding in the Mobile Crowd: Location Privacy through Collaboration

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Collaborative Location Privacy

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

Location-aware smart phones 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 identify and track users. We addr ...

2011

Collaborative Location Privacy with Rational Users

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Mathias Jacques Jean-Marc Humbert, Reza Shokri, Francisco De Meneses Neves Ramos Dos Santos

Recent smartphones incorporate embedded GPS devices that enable users to obtain geographic information about their surroundings by providing a location-based service (LBS) with their current coordinates. However, LBS providers collect a significant amount ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2011

When Whereabouts is No Longer Thereabouts

Julien Freudiger

Modern mobile devices are fast, programmable and feature localization and wireless capabilities. These technological advances notably facilitate mobile access to Internet, development of mobile applications and sharing of personal information, such as loca ...

EPFL2011

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It is a well-known fact that the progress of personal communication devices leads to serious concerns about privacy in general, and location privacy in particular. As a response to these issues, a number of Location-Privacy Protection Mechanisms (LPPMs) ha ...

Ieee Computer Soc Press, Customer Service Center, Po Box 3014, 10662 Los Vaqueros Circle, Los Alamitos, Ca 90720-1264 Usa2011

Quantifying Location Privacy: The Case of Sporadic Location Exposure

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Reza Shokri, Georgios Theodorakopoulos

Mobile users expose their location to potentially untrusted entities by using location-based services. Based on the frequency of location exposure in these applications, we divide them into two main types: Continuous and Sporadic. These two location exposu ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2011

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Users of mobile networks can change their identifiers in regions called mix zones in order to defeat the attempt of third parties to track their location. Mix zones must be deployed carefully in the network to reduce the cost they induce on mobile users an ...

Springer-Verlag New York Inc2010

Location Privacy amidst Local Eavesdroppers

Mathias Jacques Jean-Marc Humbert

Mobile social networks and location-aware applications are becoming more and more widespread in current wireless networks. Thanks to WiFi or Bluetooth-enabled devices, everyday mobile users can enjoy new services. However, the deployment of these mobile te ...

2009

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Pervasive communications bring along new privacy challenges, fueled by the capability of mobile devices to communicate with, and thus "sniff on", each other directly. We design a new mechanism that aims at achieving location privacy in these forthcoming mo ...

2009

A Distortion-based Metric for Location Privacy

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Murtuza Jadliwala, Julien Freudiger, Reza Shokri

We propose a novel framework for measuring and evaluating location privacy preserving mechanisms in mobile wireless networks. Within this framework, we first present a formal model of the system, which provides an efficient representation of the network us ...

2009

On the Optimal Placement of Mix Zones

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Julien Freudiger, Reza Shokri

In mobile wireless networks, third parties can track the location of mobile nodes by monitoring the pseudonyms used for identification. A frequently proposed solution to protect the location privacy of mobile nodes suggests to change pseudonyms in regions ...

Springer2009