Defending Location Privacy Using Zero Knowledge Proof Concept in Location Based Services

With the recent rise in popularity of wearable personal health monitoring devices, a number of concerns regarding user privacy are raised, specifically with regard to how the providers of these devices make use of the data obtained from these devices, and the protections that user data enjoys. With waterproof monitors intended to be worn 24 hours per day, and companion smartphone applications able to offer analysis and sharing of activity data, we investigate and compare the privacy policies of four services, and the extent to which these services protect user privacy, as we find these services do not fall within the scope of existing legislation regarding the privacy of health data. We then present a set of criteria which would preserve user privacy, and avoid the concerns identified within the policies of the services investigated.

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“…This is demonstrated, in the context of preservation of user privacy in location-based services, in [10].…”

Section: A Model To Preserve Privacymentioning

confidence: 92%

Privacy Implications of Wearable Health Devices

Paul

Irvine

2014

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks

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“…Jagwani and Kaushik [105] intended to prevent location information leaks using the concept of Zero knowledge proof (ZKP). The construction process of the authentication scheme based on ZKP was introduced; and the possible applications of ZKP in the location-based service domain were discussed.…”

Section: 2015mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The p-anti-conspiration privacy model lacking protecting sensitive information Jagwani and Kaushik [105] 2012 Removing the dependency of using third party software Zero knowledge proof An authentication scheme is required Gao et al [106] 2013 Protecting the trajectory privacy A trajectory privacypreserving framework…”

Section: Clustering K-anonymity (Ck) Schemementioning

confidence: 99%

Emerging Privacy Issues and Solutions in Cyber-Enabled Sharing Services: From Multiple Perspectives

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Fast development of sharing services has become a crucial part of the cyber-enabled world construction process, as sharing services reinvent how people exchange and obtain goods or services. However, privacy leakage or disclosure remains as a key concern during the sharing service development process. While significant efforts have been undertaken to address various privacy issues in recent years, there is a surprising lack of review for privacy concerns in the cyber-enabled sharing world. To bridge the gap, in this study, we survey and evaluate existing and emerging privacy issues relating to sharing services from various perspectives. Differing from existing similar works on surveying sharing practices in various fields, our work comprehensively covers six branches of sharing services in the cyberenabled world, and selects solutions mostly from the recent five to six years. We conclude the issues and solutions from three perspectives, namely, from users', platforms' and service providers' perspectives. Hot topics and less discussed (cold) topics are identified, which provides hints to researchers for their future studies.

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“…Jagwani et al [39] applied the middleware to help generate the certificate for a client in the form of a pseudonym, which is used by a Location-Based Service Provider (LSP) at the time of seeking a service to solve the problem in the middleware under bottleneck. ZKP was adopted for authentication.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

BL0K: A New Stage of Privacy-Preserving Scope for Location-Based Services

Albelaihy

Thayananthan

2019

Sensors

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Location-based services present an inherent challenge of finding the delicate balance between efficiency when answering queries and maintaining user privacy. Inevitable security issues arise as the server needs to be informed of the query location to provide accurate responses. Despite the many advancements in localization security in wireless sensor networks, servers can still be infected with malicious software. It is now possible to ensure queries do not generate any fake responses that may appear real to users. When a fake response is used, there are mechanisms that can be employed so that the user can identify the authenticity of the query. For this reason, this paper proposes Bloom Filter 0 Knowledge (BL0K), which is novel phase privacy method that preserves the framework for location-based service (LBS) and combines a Bloom filter and the Zero knowledge protocol. The usefulness of these methods has been shown for securing private user information. Analysis of the results demonstrated that BL0K performance is decidedly better when compared to the referenced approaches using the privacy entropy metric.

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Defending Location Privacy Using Zero Knowledge Proof Concept in Location Based Services

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Privacy Implications of Wearable Health Devices

Privacy Implications of Wearable Health Devices

Emerging Privacy Issues and Solutions in Cyber-Enabled Sharing Services: From Multiple Perspectives

BL0K: A New Stage of Privacy-Preserving Scope for Location-Based Services

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