Privacy in Location-Based Applications

1. Front Matter

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2. Anonymity and Historical-Anonymity in Location-Based Services

   • Claudio Bettini, Sergio Mascetti, X. Sean Wang, Dario Freni, Sushil Jajodia

   Pages 1-30

3. Location Privacy Techniques in Client-Server Architectures

   • Christian S. Jensen, Hua Lu, Man Lung Yiu

   Pages 31-58

4. Private Information Retrieval Techniques for Enabling Location Privacy in Location-Based Services

   • Ali Khoshgozaran, Cyrus Shahabi

   Pages 59-83

5. Privacy Preservation over Untrusted Mobile Networks

   • Claudio A. Ardagna, Sushil Jajodia, Pierangela Samarati, Angelos Stavrou

   Pages 84-105

6. Access Control in Location-Based Services

   • Claudio A. Ardagna, Marco Cremonini, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Pierangela Samarati

   Pages 106-126

7. Location Privacy in RFID Applications

   • Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Ivan Visconti, Christian Wachsmann

   Pages 127-150

8. Privacy in Georeferenced Context-Aware Services: A Survey

   • Daniele Riboni, Linda Pareschi, Claudio Bettini

   Pages 151-172

9. Safety and Privacy in Vehicular Communications

   • Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Qianhong Wu

   Pages 173-189

10. Privacy Preserving Publication of Moving Object Data

    • Francesco Bonchi

    Pages 190-215

11. Back Matter

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Location-based applications refer to those that use location data in a prominent manner. Location data can be very effective for service provisioning, enabling the birth of a new generation of information services. Although data security and privacy issues have been extensively investigated in several domains, current techniques are not readily applicable to location-based applications. Conciliating the effectiveness of these applications with privacy concerns constitutes a unique challenge, mostly due to the semantic richness of location and time information. Research in this field involves aspects of spatio-temporal reasoning, query processing, system security, statistical inference, and more importantly, anonymization techniques. Several research groups have been working in recent years to identify privacy attacks and defense techniques in this domain.

This state-of-the-art survey provides a solid ground for researchers approaching this topic to understand current achievements through a common categorization of privacy threats and defense techniques. This objective is particularly challenging considering the specific (and often implicit) assumptions that characterize the recent literature on privacy in location-based services.

The book also illustrates the many facets that make the study of this topic a particularly interesting research subject, including topics that go beyond privacy preserving transformations of service requests, and include access control, privacy preserving publishing of moving object data, privacy in the use of specific positioning technology, and privacy in vehicular network applications.

• Access
• Processing
• RFID
• access control
• architectures
• control
• data security
• information retrieval
• mobile networks
• networks
• privacy
• private information retrieval
• query processing
• technology
• time

From the reviews: “Book provides the state of the art in research on privacy in location-based applications. … For developers of location-based applications, this book is a valuable resource for understanding individual privacy concerns and the current techniques for addressing them. Researchers will find this book rich with privacy challenges that must be addressed before individuals can fully trust location-based applications.” (A. Hevner, ACM Computing Reviews, March, 2010)

• Dipartimento di Informatica e Comunicazione (DICO), Universita’ degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

  Claudio Bettini

• George Mason University, Fairfax, USA

  Sushil Jajodia

• Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell’ Informazione, Universita’ degli Studi di Milano, Crema, Italy

  Pierangela Samarati

• Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont, Burlington, USA

  X. Sean Wang

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