"I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints." - Revealing the demographics of location data

COSN 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Online Social Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 185-195

  Riederer, Chris ^a   Zimmeck, Sebastian ^a   Phanord, Coralie ^a   Chaintreau, Augustin ^a   Bellovin, Steven M ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Location data; Machine learning; Privacy; Segregation; Social networks

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA PRIVACY; INFERENCE ENGINES; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LOCATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); WEB SERVICES;

ACCURATE INFERENCE; DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; DISCRIMINATIVE POWER; GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY; LOCATION DATA; METROPOLITAN AREA; RE IDENTIFICATIONS; SPATIAL SEGREGATION;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84964076653     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2817946.2817968     Document Type: Conference Paper

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