Quantifying location privacy

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 247-262

  Shokri, Reza ^a   Theodorakopoulos, George ^a   Le Boudec, Jean Yves ^a   Hubaux, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Evaluation framework; Location privacy; Location traces; Location Privacy Meter; Quantifying metric

Indexed keywords

DATA PRIVACY; RISK PERCEPTION;

EVALUATION FRAMEWORK; INFERENCE ATTACKS; LOCATION PRIVACY; LOCATION PRIVACY PROTECTION; LOCATION TRACE; LOCATION-PRIVACY METER; PROTECTION MECHANISMS; QUANTIFYING METRIC; USER LOCATION;

LOCATION;

EID: 80051968910     PISSN: 10816011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SP.2011.18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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