We know where you live: Privacy characterization of foursquare behavior

UbiComp'12 - Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 898-905

  Pontes, Tatiana ^a   Vasconcelos, Marisa ^a   Almeida, Jussara ^a   Kumaraguru, Ponnurangam ^b   Almeida, Virgilio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b INDRAPRASTHA INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Foursquare; Location Prediction; Privacy

Indexed keywords

CHECK-IN; FOURSQUARE; LOCATION PREDICTION; LOCATION-BASED SOCIAL NETWORKS; MOVEMENT PATTERN; SOURCES OF INFORMATIONS; WEB 2.0 APPLICATIONS;

DATA PRIVACY; LOCATION BASED SERVICES;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 84879483810     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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