Title
Using dynamic pseudo-IDs to protect privacy in location-based services
Abstract
Location-based services (LBSs) are attracting more and more attentions with the increasing popularity of mobile devices and online social networking. In LBSs, users can conveniently obtain their interested information by sending queries to the LBS server. However, users' queries include their identities, locations, interests, etc, which may result in the leakage of users' trajectory and other sensitive information. Although the existing obfuscation and location anonymization techniques along with a long-term pseudonym can protect users' location privacy to some extent, users' real identities and moving trajectories can still be deduced through long-term observation and side information aided inference attacks. To address these problems, we propose a dynamic pseudo-ID system, where unlinkable pseudo-IDs are used by users to completely hide their identities in the queries, in order to break the link between users' identities and their locations. Moreover, we employ certificates to ensure the verifiability and traceability of the dynamic pseudo-IDs. Security analysis and evaluation results show that the proposed scheme can enhance user' privacy and is feasible to implement into mobile devices.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ICC.2014.6883667
ICC
Keywords
Field
DocType
location privacy,mobile devices,data privacy,user queries,mobility management (mobile radio),side information aided inference attacks,dynamic pseudo-id,location based services,online social networking,privacy preserving,telecommunication security,security analysis,location anonymization techniques,mobile computing,long term observation,pseudo-ids,location-based services,servers,security,mobile communication,privacy,wireless communication,trajectory
Mobile computing,Computer science,Computer security,Pseudonym,Computer network,Location-based service,Mobile device,Security analysis,Obfuscation,Information sensitivity,Traceability
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1550-3607
4
0.40
References 
Authors
11
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaoyan Zhu12125141.16
Haotian Chi2496.05
Shunrong Jiang3364.22
Xiaosan Lei4111.53
Hui Li539435.42