Preserving location privacy on a smartphone

Protecting sensitive information about users should be of key importance, including those that reveal inference-based information. Location tracking and collection methods are usually extensive, detailed, and often breaches the privacy of the user. This project aims to implement a privacy filt...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ng, Jasreen Kai En
Other Authors: Tay Wee Peng
Format: Final Year Project (FYP)
Language:English
Published: 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/77918
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Summary:Protecting sensitive information about users should be of key importance, including those that reveal inference-based information. Location tracking and collection methods are usually extensive, detailed, and often breaches the privacy of the user. This project aims to implement a privacy filter by considering the public and private parameters for revelation and protection respectively. In this paper, we are concerned with location information of users with smartphone devices, as well as the inferable velocity information of such users.