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A Privacy-By-Design Architecture for Indoor Localization Systems

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The availability of mobile devices has led to an arising development of indoor location services collecting a large amount of sensitive information. However, without accurate and verified management, such information could become severe back-doors for security and privacy issues. We propose in this paper a novel Location-Based Service (LBS) architecture in line with the GDPR’s provisions. For feasibility purposes and considering a representative use-case, a reference implementation, based on the popular Telegram app, is also presented.

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    https://www.indooratlas.com/.

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    Art. 15.1 of the GDPR: 1. The data subject shall have the right to obtain [...] the following information: (a) the purposes of the processing; (b) the categories of personal data concerned; [...] (Right of access by the data subject).

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Barsocchi, P. et al. (2020). A Privacy-By-Design Architecture for Indoor Localization Systems. In: Shepperd, M., Brito e Abreu, F., Rodrigues da Silva, A., Pérez-Castillo, R. (eds) Quality of Information and Communications Technology. QUATIC 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1266. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58793-2_29

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