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A Dynamic Approach for User Privacy Management in Location-based Mobile Services

Authors:
Amr Ali-Eldin

Keywords: User preferences; Information Collectors; Smart Phones; Service Providers; Pervasive Computing; Location-based services (LBS)

Abstract:
Recently, we have noticed the wide spread of GPS enabled mobile phones, which enable mobile applications to track users locations and start pushing customized advertisements to them. For a small benefit a user might get from these Ads, a user might be willing to share his or her location without even knowing the impact this might have on his or her privacy. In this paper, we propose a dynamic approach for evaluating those coming requests for users’ locations based on users pre-described privacy preferences by providing users with what we call a Privacy Threat Level (PTL) indicator. We have developed a simulation console and presented a scenario showing how this approach can work in practice.

Pages: 86 to 92

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: October 23, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3468

ISBN: 978-1-61208-164-9

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from October 23, 2011 to October 29, 2011