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A Middleware Enforcing Location Privacy in Mobile Platforms

PATEL, Asma and Palomar, Esther (2017) A Middleware Enforcing Location Privacy in Mobile Platforms. In: Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business. Springer, Cham, pp. 32-45. ISBN 978-3-319-64483-7

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Emerging indoor positioning and WiFi infrastructure enable building apps with numerous Location-based Services (LBS) that represent critical threats to smartphone users' location privacy provoking continuous tracking, profiling and unauthorized identification. Currently, the app eco-system relies on permission-based access control, which is proven ineffective at controlling how third party apps and/or library developers use and share users' data. In this paper we present the design, deployment and evaluation of PL-Protector, a location privacy-enhancing middleware, which through a caching technique minimises the interaction and data collection from wireless access points, content distributors and location providers. PL-Protector also provides a new series of control settings and privacy rules over both, the information and control flows between sources and sinks, to prevent user information disclosure during LBS queries. We implement PL-Protector on Android 6, and conduct experiments with real apps from five different categories of location-based services such as instant messaging and navigation. Experiments demonstrate acceptable delay overheads (lower than 22 milliseconds) within practical limits; hence, our middleware is practical, secure and effcient for location-demanding apps.

Item Type: Book Chapter, Section or Conference Proceeding
Faculty: School of Computing and Digital Technologies > Computing
Depositing User: Asma PATEL
Date Deposited: 12 Jul 2019 08:45
Last Modified: 24 Feb 2023 13:56
URI: https://eprints.staffs.ac.uk/id/eprint/5751

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