Location Privacy in Pervasive Computing
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Achieving k-anonymity privacy protection using generalization and suppression
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Anonymous Usage of Location-Based Services Through Spatial and Temporal Cloaking
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Fine-Grained Cloaking of Sensitive Positions in Location-Sharing Applications
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Location tracking via social networking sites
Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference
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Advances in positioning services and their pervasiveness, e.g., wi-fi based location services, pave the way to the development of innovative LBSs and architectures. In this paper we focus on location-aware browsing, a framework which enables websites to acquire the position of website users. In particular we discuss privacy issues related to the recent W3C proposal for a geolocation API standard. Such specification prescribes that users must give explicit consent to the disclosure of position information to websites. In this paper we argue that stronger and more flexible protection is needed: a) users should be provided with the capability of disclosing coarse regions in place of point coordinates in order to limit the disclosure of personal location data; b) location information should be protected not only against websites but also against location service providers. We discuss a possible approach to address those requirements under the assumption that the position is computed by a wi-fi based positioning service. Finally, we broaden the discussion to include a complementary legal viewpoint.