Location Privacy In Moving-Object

Environments
Abstract
The expanding use of location-based services has profound implications on
the privacy of personal information. If no adequate protection is adopted,
information about movements of specific individuals could be disclosed to
unauthorized subjects or organizations, thus resulting in privacy breaches. In this
paper, we propose a framework for preserving location privacy in moving-object
environments. Our approach is based on the idea of sending to the service provider
suitably modified location information. Such modifications, that include
transformations like scaling, are performed by agents interposed between users and
service providers. Agents execute data transformation and the service provider
directly processes the transformed dataset. Our technique not only prevents the
service provider from knowing the exact locations of users, but also protects
information about user movements and locations from being disclosed to other
users who are not authorized to access this information. A key characteristic of our
approach is that it achieves privacy without degrading service quality. We also
define a privacy model to analyze our framework, and examine our approach
experimentally.
Domain:Networking
Platform:JAVA
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