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Achieving Perfect Location Privacy In Wireless Devices Using Anonymization, Zarrin Montazeri
Achieving Perfect Location Privacy In Wireless Devices Using Anonymization, Zarrin Montazeri
Masters Theses
The popularity of mobile devices and location-based services (LBS) have created great concerns regarding the location privacy of the users of such devices and services. Anonymization is a common technique that is often being used to protect the location privacy of LBS users. This technique assigns a random pseudonym to each user and these pseudonyms can change over time. Here, we provide a general information theoretic definition for perfect location privacy and prove that perfect location privacy is achievable for mobile devices when using the anonymization technique appropriately. First, we assume that the user’s current location is independent from her …