• Spatial Information Research
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.131-142
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• 2003

The Location Based Services comprised GIS and Telecommunication allow users to receive various services based on their geographic location. It is need to legislation to encourage the provision and use of location information by providing privacy protection to users. But the contents of the legislation proposed by Korean government have problems conflicted between protection of a person's location information and invigoration of location-based services. The purpose of this study is to search complementary measures for privacy protection of location information from a viewpoint of effective management strategy for geographic information.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.101-108
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• 2015

Location-sharing based service (LSBS) refers to a service that users share their location information with other users with whom friendship. At this time, the location information is shared through service provider, and then their position information is exposed to the service provider. The exposure of this personal position information to the service provider has raised a privacy problem, and thus privacy preserving mechanisms have been proposed to protect them. In this paper, we examine the types and features of the proposed location-sharing based services so far, and survey the research trend of privacy preserving mechanisms for them. Through the analysis on existing privacy preserving mechanisms, we present design factors for a privacy preserving mechanism for the current LSBS services, and suggest future work.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.1241-1244
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• 2010

인간의 가장 큰 욕구인 편의와 안전을 위해 우리의 곁에서 떨어질 수 없는 것이 차량이다. 그러므로 차량을 이용하면서 겪게 되는 안전과 편의 또한 떼어놓을 수 없는 문제 중에 하나다. 그 편의와 안전을 위해 VANET이 활발히 개발 중이다. VANET은 차량에서 사용되는 근거리/중거리 통신용 무선 프로토콜로써 차량 간 통신인 V2V, 차량과 네트워크 기반구조 간의 통신인 V2I를 지원하는 네트워크로써 다양한 서비스를 제공한다. 이에 학문적, 상업적으로 많은 관심을 받고 있다. 그러나 네트워크 기반의 기술인만큼 사용자의 프라이버시 침해가 큰 문제로 대두되고 있다. 이 중에서도 사용자의 익명성, 추적성, 객체인증에 관한 Location Privacy는 개발과정에서 큰 걸림돌이 되고 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 VANET에서의 Location Privacy 보호에 대한 기술들의 개략적인 내용을 서술하고, 장단점을 분석하였다. Location Privacy 보호를 위한 기술에는 해쉬통합을 이용한 보호기술, MAC-체인을 이용한 보호기술, 그리고 세션 키 교환을 이용한 보호기술이 있다. 세 가지 기술 중에서 MAC-체인을 이용한 기술이 Location Privacy 보호에 가장 적합하다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.47-57
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• 2013

Location privacy has been a serious concern for mobile users who use location-based services to acquire geographical location continuously. Spatial cloaking technique is a well-known privacy preserving method, which blurs an exact user location into a cloaked area to meet privacy requirements. However, cloaking for continuous moving object suffers from cloaked area size problem as it is unlikely for all objects travel in the same direction. In this paper, we propose a grid-based privacy preservation method with an improved Earth Mover's Distance(EMD) metric weight update scheme for semantic cloaking. We also define a representative cloaking area which protects continuous location privacy for moving users. Experimental implementation and evaluation exhibit that our proposed method renders good efficiency and scalability in cloaking processing time and area size control. We also show that our proposed method outperforms the existing method by successfully protects location privacy of continuous moving objects against various adversaries.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.13C no.4 s.107
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• pp.415-426
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• 2006

The essential characteristic of ubiquitous is context-awareness, and that means ubiquitous computing can automatically process the data that change according to space and time, without users' intervention. However, in circumstance of context awareness, since location information is able to be collected without users' clear approval, users cannot control their location information completely. These problems can cause privacy issue when users access their location information. Therefore, it is important to construct the location information system, which decides to release the information considering privacy under the condition such as location, users' situation, and people who demand information. Therefore, in order to intercept an outflow information and provide securely location-based information, this paper suggests a new system based CS-RBAC with the existing LBS, which responds sensitively as customer's situation. Moreover, it accommodates a merit of PCP reflecting user's preference constructively. Also, through privacy weight, it makes information not only decide to providing information, but endow 'grade'. By this method, users' data can be protected safely with foundation of 'Role' in context-aware circumstance.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.211-214
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• 2009

This paper describes a location privacy control system. Also, we propose a model of location privacy control for national usage and system. This research is applicable to location privacy protection in commercial location-based services in wireless telecommunications, T-Money transtoration card system, GIS platform and provide system of variety service.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.69-76
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• 2024

Recent advances in sensor and mobile technologies have made it possible to collect user location data. This location information is used as a valuable asset in various industries, resulting in increased demand for location data collection and sharing. However, because location data contains sensitive user information, indiscriminate collection can lead to privacy issues. Recently, geo-indistinguishability (Geo-I), a method of differential privacy, has been widely used to protect the privacy of location data. While Geo-I is powerful in effectively protecting users' locations, it poses a problem because the utility of the collected location data decreases due to data perturbation. Therefore, this paper proposes a method using Geo-I technology to effectively collect user location data while maintaining its data utility. The proposed method utilizes the prior distribution of users to improve the overall data utility, while protecting accurate location information. Experimental results using real data show that the proposed method significantly improves the usefulness of the collected data compared to existing methods.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.23-30
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• 2017

For enjoying the convenience provided by location based services, the user needs to submit his or her location and query to the LBS server. So there is a probability that the untrusted LBS server may expose the user's id and location etc. To protect user's privacy so many approaches have been proposed in the literature. Recently, the approaches about using dummy are getting popular. However, there are a number of things to consider if we want to generate a dummy. For example, when generating a dummy, we have to take the obstacle and the distance between dummies into account so that we can improve the privacy level. Thus, in this paper we proposed an efficient dummy generation algorithm to achieve k-anonymity and protect user's privacy in LBS. Evaluation results show that the algorithm can significantly improve the privacy level when it was compared with others.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.272-279
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• 2009

A location information used in LBS provides convenience to the user, but service provider can be exploited depending on how much risk you have. Location information can be exploited to track the location of the personal privacy of individuals because of the misuse of location information may violate the user can import a lot of damage. In this paper, we classify the life cycle of location information as collection, use, delivery, storage and destroy and analyze the factors the privacy is violated. Furthermore, we analyze information security mechanism is classified as operation mechanism and policy/management mechanism and propose a security solutions of all phase in life cycle.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.12-23
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• 2009

Sensor networks deployed in battlefields to support military operations or deployed in natural habitats to monitor the rare wildlifes must take account of protection of the location of valuable assets(i.e., soldiers or wildlifes) from an adversary or malicious tracing as well as the security of messages in transit. In this paper we propose a routing protocol GSLP(GPSR-based Source-Location Privacy) that is capable of enhancing the location privacy of an active source node(i.e., message-originating node) in the presence of multiple dormant sources(i.e., nodes lying nearby an asset whose location needs to be secured). Extended is a simple, yet scalable, routing scheme GPSR(greedy perimeter stateless routing) to select randomly a next-hop node with a certain probability for randomizing paths and to perform perimeter routing for detouring dormant sources so that the privacy strength of the active source, defined as safety period, keeps enhanced. The simulation results obtained by increasing the number of dormant sources up to 1.0% of the total number of nodes show that GSLP yields increased and nearly invariant safety periods, while those of PR-SP(Phantom Routing, Single Path), a notable existing protocol for source-location privacy, rapidly drop off as the number of dormant sources increases. It turns out that delivery latencies of GSLP are roughly less than two-fold of the shortest path length between the active source and the destination.