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

  AUTHORS: Wei Cherng Cheng, Masayoshi Aritsugi

  KEYWORDS: Location Privacy, Obfuscate Region Maps, Location-Aware, Positions Sharing

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Computer and Communications, Vol.3 No.5, May 25, 2015

  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.