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Hide, Don't Seek: on User-Centric Location Accuracy

Authors:
Marta Piekarska

Keywords: mobile privacy, location accuracy, user-centric pri- vacy

Abstract:
Location Privacy has been a very attractive topic for the past years. The amount of location blurring, hiding and privacy preserving solutions proposed by the researchers is very big. The number of such services implemented on the market, however, is quite small. Moreover, the ones actually used by the people is close to zero. We see this gap as very troubling. With the spread of devices that will allow for tracking users - the smartwatches, connected medical devices, smartphones and fitness trackers, location privacy will become even more important. When the devices become connected into the Internet of Things, so that it will be hardly possible to escape tracking: already today 70% of users sleep with their phones next to their beds. In our work, we approached the problem from a user- centric perspective, developed our solution together with users and learned what are their expectations towards such a feature.

Pages: 35 to 41

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: August 21, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3492

ISBN: 978-1-61208-502-9

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from August 21, 2016 to August 25, 2016