2019arXiv (Cornell University)Open access

On the Importance of Location Privacy for Users of Location Based Applications

Sina Shaham, Saba Rafieian, Ming Ding, Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam, Zihuai Lin

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Do people care about their location privacy while using location-based service apps? This paper aims to answer this question and several other hypotheses through a survey, and review the privacy preservation techniques. Our results indicate that privacy is indeed an influential factor in the selection of location-based apps by users.

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Do people care about their location privacy while using location-based service apps? This paper aims to answer this question and several other hypotheses through a survey, and review the privacy preservation techniques. Our results indicate that privacy is indeed an influential factor in the selection of location-based apps by users.

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Do people care about their location privacy while using location-based service apps? This paper aims to answer this question and several other hypotheses through a survey, and review the privacy preservation techniques. Our results indicate that privacy is indeed an influential factor in the selection of location-based apps by users.

Key concepts: Internet privacy, Location-based service, Location data, Computer science, Business, Computer security, Telecommunications

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