Location privacy protection on social networks

  • Authors:
  • Justin Zhan;Xing Fang

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, North Carolina A&T State University;Department of Computer Science, North Carolina A&T State University

  • Venue:
  • SBP'11 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Social computing, behavioral-cultural modeling and prediction
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Location information is considered as private in many scenarios. Protecting location information on mobile ad-hoc networks has attracted much research in past years. However, location information protection on social networks has not been paid much attention. In this paper, we present a novel location privacy protection approach on the basis of user messages in social networks. Our approach grants flexibility to users by offering them multiple protecting options. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to protect social network users' location information via text messages. We propose five algorithms for location privacy protection on social networks.