Enhancing Privacy Preservation of Anonymous Location Sampling Techniques in Traffic Monitoring Systems

Baik  Hoh; Marco Gruteser; Hui  Xiong; Ansaf  Alrabady

2nd International ICST Conference on Security and Privacy in Comunication Networks

Research Article

Enhancing Privacy Preservation of Anonymous Location Sampling Techniques in Traffic Monitoring Systems

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    author={Baik  Hoh and Marco Gruteser and Hui  Xiong and Ansaf  Alrabady},
    title={Enhancing Privacy Preservation of Anonymous Location Sampling Techniques in Traffic Monitoring Systems},
    proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Security and Privacy in Comunication Networks},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={SECURECOMM},
    year={2007},
    month={5},
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    doi={10.1109/SECCOMW.2006.359553}
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Baik Hoh
Marco Gruteser
Hui Xiong
Ansaf Alrabady
Year: 2007
Enhancing Privacy Preservation of Anonymous Location Sampling Techniques in Traffic Monitoring Systems
SECURECOMM
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SECCOMW.2006.359553

Baik Hoh¹^,*, Marco Gruteser¹^,*, Hui Xiong²^,*, Ansaf Alrabady³^,*

1: WINLAB, ECE Dept., Rutgers Univ.
2: MSIS Dept., Rutgers Univ.
3: General Motors Corporation

*Contact email: baikhoh@winlab.rutgers.edu, gruteser@winlab.rutgers.edu, hui@rbs.rutgers.edu, ansaf.alrabady@gm.com

Abstract

Automotive traffic monitoring belongs to a class of applications that collect aggregate statistics from the location traces of a large number of users. A widely-accepted belief is that anonymization of individual records can address the privacy problem which such aggregate statistics might pose. However, in this paper, we show that data mining techniques, such as clustering, can reconstruct private information from such anonymous traces. To meet this new challenge, we propose enhanced privacy-preserving algorithm to control the release of location traces near origins/destinations and evaluate it using real-world GPS location traces

Published: 2007-05-15
Publisher: IEEE

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SECCOMW.2006.359553