Huge amounts of unstructured data including image, video, audio, and text are ubiquitously
generated and shared, and it is a challenge to protect sensitive personal information in …

The widespread use of mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, and smartwatches has
led users to constantly generate various location data during their daily activities …

Location-based services (LBS) have become an important part of people's daily life.
However, while providing great convenience for mobile users, LBS result in a serious …

Due to the pervasiveness of always connected devices, large amounts of heterogeneous
data are continuously being collected. Beyond the benefits that accrue for the users, there …

Indoor location-based services (LBS) are widely used in large-scale indoor buildings, such
as high-rise hospitals and multi-story shopping malls. At the same time, location privacy …

The proliferation of location-based services (LBS) leads to increasing concern about
location privacy. Location obfuscation is a promising privacy-preserving technique but yet to …

We consider privacy of obfuscated location reports that can be correlated through
time/space to estimate the real position of a user. We propose a user-centric Location …

Location privacy has been one of the most important research areas over recent years, and
many location Privacy Preserving Mechanisms (PPMs) have been proposed. Each PPM …

Researchers have to decide on a multitude of topics during planning, preparing, and
conducting mobile sensing studies, and then analyzing the resulting data. These decisions …

Location Privacy-Preserving Mechanisms (LPPMs) have been proposed to mitigate the risks
of privacy disclosure yielded from location sharing. However, due to the nature of this type of …