Privacy for profitable location based services

  • Authors:
  • Tobias Kölsch;Lothar Fritsch;Markulf Kohlweiss;Dogan Kesdogan

  • Affiliations:
  • RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany;Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany;Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany;RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

  • Venue:
  • SPC'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Security in Pervasive Computing
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Location based services (LBS) are distributed multi-party infrastructures with the opportunity to generate profitable m-business applications. Also, LBS pose a great risk for their users' privacy, as they have access to private information about a person's whereabouts in a particular context. As location data is the essential input for LBS, protection of privacy in LBS is not a problem of providing anonymity by supressing data release, but a problem of identity management and control over information handling. In this paper we show a solution that ensures a LBS user's control over location information with managed identities. At the same time, our solution enables profitable business models, e.g. for mobile telephony operators. Additionally, we provide fine-grained consent management for the LBS user.