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Location privacy leaks can lead to unauthorised tracking, identity theft, and targeted attacks, compromising personal security and privacy. This study explores LLM-powered location privacy leaks associated with photo sharing on social…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Ying Ma , Shiquan Zhang , Dongju Yang , Zhanna Sarsenbayeva , Jarrod Knibbe , Jorge Goncalves

Location Privacy-Preserving Mechanisms (LPPMs) in the literature largely consider that users' data available for training wholly characterizes their mobility patterns. Thus, they hardwire this information in their designs and evaluate their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Simon Oya , Carmela Troncoso , Fernando Pérez-González

While Points Of Interest (POIs), such as restaurants, hotels, and barber shops, are part of urban areas irrespective of their specific locations, the names of these POIs often reveal valuable information related to local culture, landmarks,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Yingjie Hu , Krzysztof Janowicz

Differential Privacy (DP) has emerged as a pivotal approach for safeguarding individual privacy in data analysis, yet its practical adoption is often hindered by challenges in the implementation and communication of DP. This paper presents…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Onyinye Dibia , Prianka Bhattacharjee , Brad Stenger , Steven Baldasty , Mako Bates , Ivoline C. Ngong , Yuanyuan Feng , Joseph P. Near

The advent of location-based services has led to the widespread adoption of indoor localization systems, which enable location tracking of individuals within enclosed spaces such as buildings. While these systems provide numerous benefits…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Vahideh Moghtadaiee , Mina Alishahi , Milad Rabiei

Today, targeted online advertising relies on unique identifiers assigned to users through third-party cookies--a practice at odds with user privacy. While the web and advertising communities have proposed solutions that we refer to as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Yohan Beugin , Patrick McDaniel

The emergence and evolution of Local Differential Privacy (LDP) and its various adaptations play a pivotal role in tackling privacy issues related to the vast amounts of data generated by intelligent devices, which are crucial for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Likun Qin , Tianshuo Qiu

Many online services rely on self-reported locations of user devices like smartphones. To mitigate harm from falsified self-reported locations, the literature has proposed location proof services (LPSs), which provide proof of a device's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Roberta De Viti , Pierfrancesco Ingo , Isaac Sheff , Peter Druschel , Deepak Garg

We design a scalable algorithm to privately generate location heatmaps over decentralized data from millions of user devices. It aims to ensure differential privacy before data becomes visible to a service provider while maintaining high…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Eugene Bagdasaryan , Peter Kairouz , Stefan Mellem , Adrià Gascón , Kallista Bonawitz , Deborah Estrin , Marco Gruteser

We analyze to what extent final users can infer information about the level of protection of their data when the data obfuscation mechanism is a priori unknown to them (the so-called ''black-box'' scenario). In particular, we delve into the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Daniele Gorla , Louis Jalouzot , Federica Granese , Catuscia Palamidessi , Pablo Piantanida

In this paper, a delay-angle information spoofing (DAIS) strategy is proposed to enhance the location privacy at the physical layer. More precisely, the location-relevant delays and angles are artificially shifted without the aid of channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Jianxiu Li , Urbashi Mitra

With low-cost computing devices, improved sensor technology, and the proliferation of data-driven algorithms, we have more data than we know what to do with. In transportation, we are seeing a surge in spatiotemporal data collection. At the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Rahul Bhadani

LDP (Local Differential Privacy) has recently attracted much attention as a metric of data privacy that prevents the inference of personal data from obfuscated data in the local model. However, there are scenarios in which the adversary…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Takao Murakami , Kenta Takahashi

A major feature of the emerging geo-social networks is the ability to notify a user when one of his friends (also called buddies) happens to be geographically in proximity with the user. This proximity service is usually offered by the…

Databases · Computer Science 2010-11-09 Sergio Mascetti , Dario Freni , Claudio Bettini , X. Sean Wang , Sushil Jajodia

Sharing trajectories is beneficial for many real-world applications, such as managing disease spread through contact tracing and tailoring public services to a population's travel patterns. However, public concern over privacy and data…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Teddy Cunningham , Graham Cormode , Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu , Divesh Srivastava

Geo-obfuscation is a Location Privacy Protection Mechanism used in location-based services that allows users to report obfuscated locations instead of exact ones. A formal privacy criterion, geoindistinguishability (Geo-Ind), requires real…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Sourabh Yadav , Chenyang Yu , Xinpeng Xie , Yan Huang , Chenxi Qiu

With eye tracking being increasingly integrated into virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) head-mounted displays, preserving users' privacy is an ever more important, yet under-explored, topic in the eye tracking community. We report a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Julian Steil , Inken Hagestedt , Michael Xuelin Huang , Andreas Bulling

In large-scale statistical learning, data collection and model fitting are moving increasingly toward peripheral devices---phones, watches, fitness trackers---away from centralized data collection. Concomitant with this rise in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-04 Abhishek Bhowmick , John Duchi , Julien Freudiger , Gaurav Kapoor , Ryan Rogers

Differential privacy is a promising framework for addressing the privacy concerns in sharing sensitive datasets for others to analyze. However differential privacy is a highly technical area and current deployments often require experts to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Jack Murtagh , Kathryn Taylor , George Kellaris , Salil Vadhan

Current approaches for points-of-interest (POI) recommendation learn the preferences of a user via the standard spatial features such as the POI coordinates, the social network, etc. These models ignore a crucial aspect of spatial mobility…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Vinayak Gupta , Srikanta Bedathur