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PrivacyGrid Visualization. Balaji Palanisamy Saurabh Taneja. Location Based Services: Examples. Location-based Social Networking: Google Latitude: Where are my friends currently? Location-based advertisements:
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PrivacyGrid Visualization Balaji Palanisamy Saurabh Taneja
Location Based Services: Examples • Location-based Social Networking: • Google Latitude: Where are my friends currently? • Location-based advertisements: • Where are the gas stations within five miles of my location? • Location-based traffic Monitoring and Emergency services: • Show me the estimated time of travel to my destination?
Location Privacy The capability of a mobile node (or a trusted location server) to conceal the relation between location information from third parties while the user is on the move. Threats Location-based technologies can pinpoint your location at any time and place. They promise safety and convenience but threaten privacy and security.
PrivacyGrid Visualization Motivation • mobile users need to be aware of location privacy threats and the various location privacy metrics such as k-anonymity and l-diversity. • an effort to help naïve users appreciate the location privacy metrics and the location perturbation process in a mobile environment • For every query issued the user may wish to know the exposed location.
Location Privacy Metrics Quantitative Metrics: k-anonymity:location information is indistinguishable from k other users location l-diversity:reduces the risk of associating users with locations Each mobile user has his own privacy-profile that includes: 1. k-anonymity and l -diversity requirements 2. Maximum tolerable spatial resolution, dx and dy 3. Maximum tolerable temporal resolution, dt
Spatial Cloaking in PrivacyGrid: 1. Bottom up Cloaking(dynamically adds grid cells) 2.Top Down Cloaking(dynamically reduces grid cells) 3. Hybrid Approach
Works with any Geographical map User specified Traffic-volume and Traffic speed for each class of road( Expressways, Major roads, Residential roads) User specified simulation time Query by Query Navigation Tracking a specific user Various Grid-cell sizes Zoom-In Anonymization Statistics Visualization Features
Performance Metrics • Success Rate • Anonymization time • Relative anonymity level • Relative spatial resolution
Incorporate maps from other sources like Google maps in the Visualization tool. Visualize mobility of the objects. Visualize stepwise Top-down and Bottom-up expansion procedure Future Work
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