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Location Privacy in Mobile Computing Environments

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Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2006)

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In general, privacy can be viewed as the right to be left alone when desired (solitude), the right to remain anonymous (anonymity), and the right to confidentiality (secrecy of information). More specifically, location privacy is “the ability to prevent other parties from learning one’s current or past locations”. In this paper, we focus on two primitives that make up location privacy: identity information and location information. Identity information has to do with the static attributes and characteristics that uniquely identify a person. Information about an individual’s identity can also be inferred based upon their location at various times (in other words, their activities can give away identity information). The other type of information upon which we will focus, location information, deals specifically with the whereabouts of an individual or group. We will also describe location-aware applications and services and their relationship with location privacy.

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  1. Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Michigan – Dearborn, 4901 Evergreen Rd, Dearborn, Michigan, 48128

    John P. Baugh & Jinhua Guo

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  1. Hosei University, 184-8584, Tokyo, Japan

    Jianhua Ma

  2. Services Computing Technology and System Lab Cluster and Grid Computing Lab School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430074, Wuhan, China

    Hai Jin

  3. Department of Computer Science, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Canada

    Laurence T. Yang

  4. Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Asia University, No. 500, Lioufeng Road, Wufeng Shiang, 413, Taichung, Taiwan

    Jeffrey J.-P. Tsai

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Baugh, J.P., Guo, J. (2006). Location Privacy in Mobile Computing Environments. In: Ma, J., Jin, H., Yang, L.T., Tsai, J.JP. (eds) Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing. UIC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4159. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11833529_95

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