Abstract | ||
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As smartphones are increasingly used to run apps that provide users with location-based services, the users' location privacy has become a major concern. Existing solutions to this concern are deficient in terms of practicality, efficiency, and effectiveness. To address this problem, we design, implement, and evaluate LP-Guardian, a novel and comprehensive framework for location privacy protection for Android smartphone users. LP-Guardian's overcomes the shortcomings of existing approaches by addressing the tracking, profiling, and identification threats while maintaining app functionality. We have implemented and evaluated LP-Guardian's on Android 4.3.1. Our evaluation results show that LP-Guardian's effectively thwarts the privacy threats, without deteriorating the user's experience (less than 10% overhead in delay and energy). Also, LP-Guardian's privacy protection is shown to be achieved at a tolerable loss in app functionality. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2014 | 10.1145/2660267.2660270 | ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
location privacy,security and protection,anonymity,location-based services,privacy,indistinguishability,android,location based services | Internet privacy,Android (operating system),Computer security,Computer science,Profiling (computer programming),Location-based service,Anonymity,Privacy software | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
49 | 1.54 | 35 |
Authors | ||
2 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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Kassem Fawaz | 1 | 190 | 19.60 |
Kang G. Shin | 2 | 14055 | 1487.46 |