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Ephemerality Is the New Black: A Novel Perspective on Location Data Management and Location Privacy in LBS

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Progress in Location-Based Services 2016

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Location information is essential to location-based services (LBS), but also has the potential to reveal sensitive information about the users of LBS to malicious agents. Therefore, location privacy is an important issue to address for both users and providers of LBS. In this paper, we investigate how location privacy can be realized in the context of a location-based service. Based on a review of architectures for LBS and key issues related to location privacy, we discuss several measures to integrate location privacy into LBS. In order to address privacy threats associated with the storage of location information, we propose an approach based on privacy-by-design principles and introduce a conceptual model to facilitate the implementation of those principles. In addition, we investigate the role of location data management in the context of privacy preservation, and propose the concept of temporal and spatial ephemerality to improve location privacy in the context of a location-based service.

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    https://github.com/heinrichloewen/SC-App.

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    https://github.com/chack05/sc16-ephemeral-lbs-server.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge funding from the European Union through the GEO-C project (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2014, Grant Agreement Number 642332, http://www.geo-c.eu/).

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  1. Institute for Geoinformatics (Ifgi), University of Münster, Münster, Germany

    Mehrnaz Ataei & Christian Kray

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Ataei, M., Kray, C. (2017). Ephemerality Is the New Black: A Novel Perspective on Location Data Management and Location Privacy in LBS. In: Gartner, G., Huang, H. (eds) Progress in Location-Based Services 2016. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47289-8_18

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