A Step towards User Privacy while Using Location-Based Services
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A Step towards User Privacy while Using Location-Based Services
Nowadays mobile users are using a popular service called Location-Based Services (LBS). LBS is very helpful for a mobile user in finding various Point of Interests (POIs) in their vicinity. To get these services, users must provide their personal information, such as user identity or current location, which severely risks the location privacy of the user. Many researchers are developing schemes...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Information Processing Systems
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1976-913X
DOI: 10.3745/jips.01.0003