Middleware for location privacy: an overview

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serval:BIB_8A40CD0E513B
Type
Inproceedings: an article in a conference proceedings.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Title
Middleware for location privacy: an overview
Title of the conference
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Research in Applied Computation Symposium
Author(s)
Holzer A., Garbinato B., Vessaz F.
Publisher
ACM
Address
New York, NY, USA
ISBN
978-1-4503-1492-3
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2012
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Series
RACS '12
Pages
296--303
Language
english
Abstract
As context-aware mobile applications become increasingly common, privacy issues hit headlines again. Users are faced with a trade-off. On one hand, releasing information about their location allows them to take advantage of new location-based services. On the other hand, releasing such information raises privacy issues about the potential inadequate or even malicious use of location information. Location-based tourist information is a typical service that needs to overcome this tension in order to succeed. Thus, programming such services is challenging in two aspects. First, there is the inherent burden of programming distributed context-aware software. Second, there is the challenge of programming such software in a way that guarantees user privacy. Providing adequate middleware can alleviate the programming burden. In this paper, we provide an analysis of various existing privacy-enabling middleware that can be used to provide programming support for it.
Keywords
context-aware, distributed, location, middleware, privacy
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09/07/2013 10:35
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21/08/2019 6:17
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