Title
ProQuPri: towards anonymity protection with privacy quantification for context-aware applications
Abstract
Privacy is the most often-cited criticism of context awareness in pervasive environments and may be the utmost barrier to its enduring success. Users certainly desire to be notified of potential data capture. Context-based pervasive applications have the vulnerabilities of tracking and capturing extensive portions of users' activities. Whether such data capture is an actual threat or not, users' perceptions of such possibilities may discourage them from using and adopting pervasive applications. So far in context-based pervasive applications, location data has been the main focus to make users anonymous. However in reality, anonymity depends on all the privacy sensitive data collected by the applications. Protecting anonymity with the help of an anonymizer has the susceptibility of a single point of failure. In this poster, we propose a formal model ProQuPri (Protect Anonymity and Quantify Privacy) that preserves users' anonymity without anonymizer while quantifies the amount of privacy at the time asking for services from untrustworthy service providers. Before placing a request, each user can protect his own anonymity by collaborating with his peers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/1982185.1982283
SAC
Keywords
Field
DocType
own anonymity,data capture,context-based pervasive application,potential data,privacy quantification,privacy sensitive data,location data,pervasive environment,pervasive application,anonymity protection,protecting anonymity,context-aware application,protect anonymity,anonymity,service provider,data collection,privacy
Internet privacy,Single point of failure,Criticism,Computer security,Computer science,Service provider,Context awareness,Automatic identification and data capture,Anonymity,Perception,Vulnerability
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
5
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Farzana Rahman117023.31
Md. Endadul Hoque211511.00
Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed364688.67