Unraveling an old cloak: K-anonymity for location privacy

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 115-118

  Shokri, Reza ^b   Troncoso, Carmela ^a   Diaz, Claudia ^a   Freudiger, Julien ^b   Hubaux, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

k anonymity; location privacy; spatio temporal cloaking

Indexed keywords

K-ANONYMITY; LOCATION PRIVACY; LOCATION-BASED SERVICES; SPATIO-TEMPORAL;

DATA PRIVACY;

EID: 78650182778     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1866919.1866936     Document Type: Conference Paper

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