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Privacy Issues in Geosocial Networks

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Risks and Security of Internet and Systems (CRiSIS 2014)

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A GeoSocial Network (GSN) is a social network enhanced with the capability to associate user data and content with location. This content-location link is getting stronger due to the swift development of GSNs and mobile technologies. Indeed, the gathered location information generates a huge amount of publicly-available location data, information that was always considered private or at least known only by friends or family. Hence, a serious privacy threat is revealed: being tracked in real time, or having location history disclosed to everyone, is a privacy invasion that needs addressing before too much control is lost. In this paper we are interested in several questions such as: How much are we at risk? Are we vigilant enough to face this risk? Are existing privacy-protection techniques sufficient to let us relax? And if so, which technique is more efficient? Are we legally protected? This paper explores these and other related questions.

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    Zakaria Sahnoune, Cheu Yien Yep & Esma Aïmeur

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  2. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

    Indrajit Ray

  3. University of Trento, Trento, Italy

    Bruno Crispo

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Sahnoune, Z., Yep, C.Y., Aïmeur, E. (2015). Privacy Issues in Geosocial Networks. In: Lopez, J., Ray, I., Crispo, B. (eds) Risks and Security of Internet and Systems. CRiSIS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8924. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17127-2_5

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