Understanding user social mobility is key to meeting personalized location privacy protection

What is it about?

we conduct a comprehensive survey on differentiated location privacy protection (DLPP) from semantic perception perspective to provide a complete overview of mobile semantics aware-DLPP (MS-DLPP). Specifically, we first summarize mobile-semantic representation methods systematically to sort out the semantic association between user and location in mobile scenarios. It also motivates to extend the development scope of MS-DLPP, considering that mobile semantics have not yet been exploited sufficiently in LPP. Subsequently, we review existing research works on DLPP by taking the dug mobile semantics as a clue. In these works, the authors perceive the differentiated privacy sensitivity of user mobility, or the user's personalized privacy-preserving requirements, by characterizing the above mobile semantics.

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Photo by averie woodard on Unsplash

Photo by averie woodard on Unsplash

Why is it important?

Combined with extensive open-source web information, user social-behavioral semantics raise different levels of privacy concerns to users. We name it the differentiated privacy sensitivity. It makes users have personalized requirements for protecting their travelings. This results in the inevitable evolutionary trend from location privacy protection (LPP) to differentiated location privacy protection (DLPP).

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