Practical Privacy Preservation in a Mobile Cloud Environment
Dimitrios Tomaras, Michail Tsenos, Vana Kalogeraki

TL;DR
This paper introduces $TP^3$, a privacy protection system for trajectory data in mobile cloud environments, combining social link attack modeling, coreset theory, and serverless computing for efficient privacy preservation.
Contribution
It models social link exploitation attacks, applies coreset theory for data approximation, and uses serverless computing to enhance privacy operations in trajectory analytics.
Findings
The system effectively prevents social link exploitation attacks.
Coreset-based data approximation maintains analytical accuracy.
The approach is efficient and cost-effective in practical scenarios.
Abstract
The proliferation of smartphone devices has led to the emergence of powerful user services from enabling interactions with friends and business associates to mapping, finding nearby businesses and alerting users in real-time. Moreover, users do not realize that continuously sharing their trajectory data with online systems may end up revealing a great amount of information in terms of their behavior, mobility patterns and social relationships. Thus, addressing these privacy risks is a fundamental challenge. In this work, we present , a Privacy Protection system for Trajectory analytics. Our contributions are the following: (1) we model a new type of attack, namely 'social link exploitation attack', (2) we utilize the coresets theory, a fast and accurate technique which approximates well the original data using a small data set, and running queries on the coreset produces similar…
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Taxonomy
TopicsHuman Mobility and Location-Based Analysis · Data Management and Algorithms · Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques
