The loss of location privacy in the cellular age

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 60-68

  Wicker, Stephen B ^a  

^a School of Chemical and Molecular Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCATION PRIVACY; SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY; VICE PRESIDENT;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SCIENCE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84864674232     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2240236.2240255     Document Type: Article

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