Synonyms
Related Concepts
Definition
Location information privacy is the right of mobile individuals to decide how, when, and for which purposes their location information could be released to and managed by other parties.
Background
The rapid growth of mobile technologies and the widespread adoption of mobile communication devices have fostered the development of new applications that exploit the physical position of the users to offer Location-Based Services (LBSs) for business, social, or informational purposes. Today, several commercial and enterprise-oriented LBSs are already available and are gaining popularity. In general, LBSs can be partitioned into the following categories [1].
Locate-me services. They provide information about the position of the users. They should be used when authorized third parties need to know the position of the users for performing their tasks. A locate-me service is at the basis of all the others LBS categories.
...
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsRecommended Reading
Ardagna CA, Cremonini M, Damiani E, De Capitani di Vimercati S, Samarati P (2007) Privacy-enhanced location services information. In: Acquisti A, De Capitani di Vimercati S, Gritzalis S, Lambrinoudakis C (eds) Digital privacy: theory, technologies and practices. Auerbach (Taylor and Francis Group), New York
Ardagna CA, Cremonini M, De Capitani di Vimercati S, Samarati P (2011) An obfuscation-based approach for protecting location privacy. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 8(1):1327, January-March 2011
Ardagna CA, Jajodia S, Samarati P, Stavrou A (2010) Providing mobile users anonymity in hybrid networks. In: Proceedings of the 15th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2010), Athens, Greece, September 2010
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2011 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
About this entry
Cite this entry
Ardagna, C.A. (2011). Location Information (Privacy of). In: van Tilborg, H.C.A., Jajodia, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5906-5_755
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5906-5_755
Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA
Print ISBN: 978-1-4419-5905-8
Online ISBN: 978-1-4419-5906-5
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceReference Module Computer Science and Engineering