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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 5599)
Part of the book sub series: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI (LNISA)
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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.
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Front Matter
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“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)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Privacy in Location-Based Applications
Book Subtitle: Research Issues and Emerging Trends
Editors: Claudio Bettini, Sushil Jajodia, Pierangela Samarati, X. Sean Wang
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03511-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-03510-4Published: 04 August 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-03511-1Published: 30 July 2009
Series ISSN: 0302-9743
Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 217
Topics: Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Personal Computing, Information Storage and Retrieval, Computer Applications, Management of Computing and Information Systems, Legal Aspects of Computing