TY - JOUR
T1 - Location-Related Privacy in Geo-Social Networks
AU - Ruiz Vicente, Carmen
AU - Freni, Dario
AU - Bettini, Claudio
AU - Jensen, Christian Søndergaard
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Geo-social networks (GeoSNs) provide context-aware services that help associate location with users and content. The proliferation of GeoSNs indicates that they're rapidly attracting users. GeoSNs currently offer different types of services, including photo sharing, friend tracking, and "check-ins." However, this ability to reveal users' locations causes new privacy threats, which in turn call for new privacy-protection methods. The authors study four privacy aspects central to these social networks - location, absence, co-location, and identity privacy - and describe possible means of protecting privacy in these circumstances.
AB - Geo-social networks (GeoSNs) provide context-aware services that help associate location with users and content. The proliferation of GeoSNs indicates that they're rapidly attracting users. GeoSNs currently offer different types of services, including photo sharing, friend tracking, and "check-ins." However, this ability to reveal users' locations causes new privacy threats, which in turn call for new privacy-protection methods. The authors study four privacy aspects central to these social networks - location, absence, co-location, and identity privacy - and describe possible means of protecting privacy in these circumstances.
U2 - 10.1109/MIC.2011.29
DO - 10.1109/MIC.2011.29
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1089-7801
VL - 15
SP - 20
EP - 27
JO - I E E E Internet Computing
JF - I E E E Internet Computing
IS - 3
ER -