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Query probability-based location privacy protection approach
ZHAO Dapeng, SONG Guangxuan, JIN Yuanyuan, WANG Xiaoling
Journal of Computer Applications    2017, 37 (2): 347-351.   DOI: 10.11772/j.issn.1001-9081.2017.02.0347
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The existing privacy protection technologies rarely consider query probability, map data, semantic information of Point of Information (POI) and other side information, so the attacker can deduce the privacy information of the user by combining the side information with the location data. To resolve this problem, a new algorithm was proposed to protect the location privacy of users, namely ARB (Anonymouse Region Building). Firstly, the space was divided into grids, and historical statistics were utilized to obtain the probability of queries for each grid of space. Then, the anonymous region for each user was obtained based on query probability of corresponding grid to protect the user's location privacy information. Finally, the location information entropy was used as a measure of privacy protection performance, and the performance of the proposed method was verified by comparison with the existing two methods on the real data set. The experimental results show that ARB obtains better privacy protection effect and lower computation complexity.

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