The widespread adoption of continuously connected smartphones and tablets developed
the usage of mobile applications, among which many use location to provide geolocated …

Recent years have seen a global adoption of smart mobile devices, particularly those based
on Android. However, Android's widespread adoption is marred with increasingly rampant …

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) is a new computing paradigm that enables cloud computing
and information technology (IT) services to be delivered at the network's edge. By shifting …

Along with the popularity of mobile social networks (MSNs) is the increasing danger of
privacy breaches due to user location exposures. In this work, we take an initial step towards …

Leakage of user location and traffic patterns is a serious security threat with significant
implications on privacy as reported by recent surveys and identified by the US Congress …

Privacy leakage is a serious issue in spatial crowdsourcing in various scenarios. In this
paper, we study privacy protection in spatial crowdsourcing. The main challenge is to …

In this paper we present a methodology to analyze users' concerns and perspectives about
privacy at scale. We leverage NLP techniques to process millions of mobile app reviews and …

Nowadays, vehicles have been increasingly adopted in many spatial crowdsourcing (SC)
applications. Similar to other SC applications, location privacy is of great concern to vehicle …