Paper Info
Title
Location Privacy Protection for Smartphone Users
Abstract
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
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
Kassem Fawaz119019.60
Kang G. Shin2140551487.46