Journal of Computer and Communications

Volume 3, Issue 5 (May 2015)

ISSN Print: 2327-5219   ISSN Online: 2327-5227

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A User Proprietary Obfuscate System for Positions Sharing in Location-Aware Social Networks

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DOI: 10.4236/jcc.2015.35002    3,112 Downloads   3,808 Views  Citations

ABSTRACT

A user’s trajectory can be maliciously monitored by adversaries when they share the positions in location-aware social networking applications which require users to update their own locations continuously. An adversary infers user’s locations from the trajectories, and gleans user’s private information through them via location-aware social networking applications and public available geographic data. In this paper, we propose a user proprietary obfuscate system to suit situations for position sharing and location privacy preserving in location-aware social network. Users transform the public available geographic data into personal obfuscate region maps with pre-defined profile to prevent the location leaking in stationary status. Our obfuscation with size restricted regions method tunes user’s transformed locations fitting into natural movement and prevents unreasonable snapshot locations been recorded in the trajectory.

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Cheng, W. and Aritsugi, M. (2015) A User Proprietary Obfuscate System for Positions Sharing in Location-Aware Social Networks. Journal of Computer and Communications, 3, 7-20. doi: 10.4236/jcc.2015.35002.

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