A particular class of location based services, called friend finder, is becoming very popular. Using this kind of service, a subscriber obtains to know location information about other participants (called buddies). Current commercial applications of this service imply the acquisition by the service provider of the user location at the best possible precision. This can discourage many users to use this service, since the precise location is a private information. We present a privacy-aware friend finder system called Hide&Crypt that notifies a user whether her buddies are within a user-specified threshold distance. The user can specify her location privacy requirements both with respect to the service provider and to the other buddies. The system includes a server application, and clients for mobile devices and desktop computers.
Hide & crypt : protecting privacy in proximity-based services / D. Freni, S. Mascetti, C. Bettini (LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE). - In: Advances in spatial and temporal databases : 11. International symposium, SSTD 2009, Aalborg, Denmark, July 8-10, 2009 : proceedings / [a cura di] N. Mamoulis, T. Seidl, T. B. Pedersen, K. Torp, I. Assent. - Berlin : Springer, 2009. - ISBN 3642029817. - pp. 441-444 (( Intervento presentato al 11. convegno International symposium on spatial and temporal databases : SSTD tenutosi a Aalborg (Denmark) nel 2009 [10.1007/978-3-642-02982-0_36].
Hide & crypt : protecting privacy in proximity-based services
S. MascettiSecondo
;C. BettiniUltimo
2009
Abstract
A particular class of location based services, called friend finder, is becoming very popular. Using this kind of service, a subscriber obtains to know location information about other participants (called buddies). Current commercial applications of this service imply the acquisition by the service provider of the user location at the best possible precision. This can discourage many users to use this service, since the precise location is a private information. We present a privacy-aware friend finder system called Hide&Crypt that notifies a user whether her buddies are within a user-specified threshold distance. The user can specify her location privacy requirements both with respect to the service provider and to the other buddies. The system includes a server application, and clients for mobile devices and desktop computers.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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