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Collection of user's location and trajectory information that contains rich personal privacy in mobile social networks has become easier for attackers. Network traffic control is an important network system which can solve some security and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Qilong Han , Qianqian Chen , Kejia Zhang , Xiaojiang Du , Nadra Guizani

Event logs recorded during the execution of business processes constitute a valuable source of information. Applying process mining techniques to them, event logs may reveal the actual process execution and enable reasoning on quantitative…

We survey the literature on the privacy of trajectory micro-data, i.e., spatiotemporal information about the mobility of individuals, whose collection is becoming increasingly simple and frequent thanks to emerging information and…

This work introduces TraceHiding, a scalable, importance-aware machine unlearning framework for mobility trajectory data. Motivated by privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA granting users "the right to be forgotten," TraceHiding removes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Ali Faraji , Manos Papagelis

Location privacy has been extensively studied in the literature. However, existing location privacy models are either not rigorous or not customizable, which limits the trade-off between privacy and utility in many real-world applications.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Yang Cao , Yonghui Xiao , Shun Takagi , Li Xiong , Masatoshi Yoshikawa , Yilin Shen , Jinfei Liu , Hongxia Jin , Xiaofeng Xu

Trajectory-User Linking (TUL) is a relatively new mobility classification task in which anonymous trajectories are linked to the users who generated them. With applications ranging from personalized recommendations to criminal activity…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Alameen Najjar , Kyle Mede

As location-based services (LBS) have grown in popularity, more human mobility data has been collected. The collected data can be used to build machine learning (ML) models for LBS to enhance their performance and improve overall experience…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Kunlin Cai , Jinghuai Zhang , Zhiqing Hong , Will Shand , Guang Wang , Desheng Zhang , Jianfeng Chi , Yuan Tian

Statistics about traffic flow and people's movement gathered from multiple geographical locations in a distributed manner are the driving force powering many applications, such as traffic prediction, demand prediction, and restaurant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Tatsuki Koga , Casey Meehan , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Today's age of data holds high potential to enhance the way we pursue and monitor progress in the fields of development and humanitarian action. We study the relation between data utility and privacy risk in large-scale behavioral data,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Alejandro Noriega-Campero , Alex Rutherford , Oren Lederman , Yves A. de Montjoye , Alex Pentland

Removing personally identifiable information (PII) from texts is necessary to comply with various data protection regulations and to enable data sharing without compromising privacy. However, recent works show that documents sanitized by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Sebastian Ochs , Ivan Habernal

The use of virtual and augmented reality devices is increasing, but these sensor-rich devices pose risks to privacy. The ability to track a user's motion and infer the identity or characteristics of the user poses a privacy risk that has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Vivek Nair , Mark Roman Miller , Rui Wang , Brandon Huang , Christian Rack , Marc Erich Latoschik , James F. O'Brien

High-resolution individual geolocation data passively collected from mobile phones is increasingly sold in private markets and shared with researchers. This data poses significant security, privacy, and ethical risks: it's been shown that…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Dan Calacci , Alex Berke , Kent Larson , Alex , Pentland

The recent emergence of ubiquitous, multi-platform eye tracking has raised user privacy concerns over re-identification across platforms, where a person is re-identified across multiple eye tracking-enabled platforms using personally…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Samantha Aziz , Oleg Komogortsev

The exposure of location data constitutes a significant privacy risk to users as it can lead to de-anonymization, the inference of sensitive information, and even physical threats. In this paper we present LPAuditor, a tool that conducts a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Kostas Drakonakis , Panagiotis Ilia , Sotiris Ioannidis , Jason Polakis

The current state-of-the-art in user mobility research has extensively relied on open-source mobility traces captured from pedestrian and vehicular activity through a variety of communication technologies as users engage in a wide-range of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Sinjoni Mukhopadhyay King , Faisal Nawab , Katia Obraczka

Camouflaging data by generating fake information is a well-known obfuscation technique for protecting data privacy. In this paper, we focus on a very sensitive and increasingly exposed type of data: location data. There are two main…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-05-29 Vincent Bindschaedler , Reza Shokri

Connected Vehicles network is designed to provide a secure and private method for drivers to use the most efficiently the roads in certain area. When dealing with the scenario of car to access points connectivity (Wi-Fi, 3G, LTE), the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Vladimir Kaplun , Michael Segal

Preserving user privacy is paramount when it comes to publicly disclosed datasets that contain fine-grained data about large populations. The problem is especially critical in the case of mobile traffic datasets collected by cellular…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-04-15 Marco Gramaglia , Marco Fiore

A location histogram is comprised of the number of times a user has visited locations as they move in an area of interest, and it is often obtained from the user in applications such as recommendation and advertising. However, a location…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Grigorios Loukides , George Theodorakopoulos

User trajectory data is becoming increasingly accessible due to the prevalence of GPS-equipped devices such as smartphones. Many existing studies focus on querying trajectories that are similar to each other in their entirety. We observe…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Yanchuan Chang , Jianzhong Qi , Egemen Tanin , Xingjun Ma , Hanan Samet