Privacy In Location Based Services

ISBN-13: 9786139926657 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 128 str.

Mayra Zurbarán

Opis

This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the characteristics of Location Based Services (LBS) and the protection of location information in these transactions. Motivated by the importance of location privacy in the current age of mobile devices, this thesis argues that failure to ensure privacy protection under this context is a violation to human rights and poses a detriment to the freedom of users as individuals. Since location information has unique characteristics, existing methods for protecting other type of information are not suitable for geographical transactions. Here, methods that safeguard location information in location based services and that enable geospatial analysis are demonstrated. Through a taxonomy, the characteristics of LBS and privacy techniques are examined and contrasted. Moreover, mechanisms for privacy protection in LBS are presented and the resulting data is tested with different geospatial analysis tools to verify the possibility of conducting these analyses even with protected location

O autorze

Zurbarán, Mayra
Mayra Zurbaran is a Colombian-Italian geogeek with a PhD in Computer Science focused on geoprivacy and citizen science from Universidad del Norte. Her expertise lies at the intersection of ethical geodata management, free and open source software, and GIS. She is a Pythonista, author of the PostGIS Cookbook and the GISire Medium blog.