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Christian Hauser, Alexander Leonhardi, Paul J. Kühn

Security Aspects of Nexus – A Platform for Spatially Aware Applications

Deployment of location-based services constitutes a new threat to a user´s privacy. Creating an exact location profile often permits inference of the user´s activity and preferences. As these services need exact location information to provide their functionality, a user has to be able to allow or restrict the access to his location information. Furthermore, correlation of his location information with his identity must not be possible without his explicit consent. After an introduction to data management of exact location information, security problems of location-based services will be outlined in this article. Finally, possibilities for protecting location information as well as identity information will be described and discussed.

it – Information Technology (vormals it+ti), Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag

Print ISSN: 1611-2776
Volume: 44, 05/2002
Pages: 268

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