Understanding User Preferences and Awareness: Privacy Mechanisms in Location-Based Services

Burghardt, Thorben; Buchmann, Erik; Müller, Jens; Böhm, Klemens

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-05148-7_21

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“…Burghardt et al [17] obtained similar results while asking which information users would like to share with others. By designing and implementing a fully operational geotagging service and by letting participants use this application in their daily lives, the obtained results showed that, among all the users who downloaded a location-aware mobile application, 95% shared their location with friends, 92% with classmate, 91% with parents, and 86% with anybody.…”

Section: Disclosure Of Personal Geographic Locationmentioning

confidence: 72%

Users Behavior in Location-Aware Services: Digital Natives versus Digital Immigrants

Furini

2014

Advances in Human-Computer Interaction

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Location-aware services may expose users to privacy risks as they usually attach user's location to the generated contents. Different studies have focused on privacy in location-aware services, but the results are often conflicting. Our hypothesis is that users are not fully aware of the features of the location-aware scenario and this lack of knowledge affects the results. Hence, in this paper we present a different approach: the analysis is conducted on two different groups of users (digital natives and digital immigrants) and is divided into two steps: (i) understanding users' knowledge of a location-aware scenario and (ii) investigating users' opinion toward location-aware services after showing them an example of an effective location-aware service able to extract personal and sensitive information from contents publicly available in social media platforms. The analysis reveals that there is relation between users' knowledge and users' concerns toward privacy in location-aware services and also reveals that digital natives are more interested in the location-aware scenario than digital immigrants. The analysis also discloses that users' concerns toward these services may be ameliorated if these services ask for users' authorization and provide benefits to users. Other interesting findings allow us to draw guidelines that might be helpful in developing effective location-aware services.

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Section: Disclosure Of Personal Geographic Locationmentioning

confidence: 72%

Users Behavior in Location-Aware Services: Digital Natives versus Digital Immigrants

Furini

2014

Advances in Human-Computer Interaction

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“…Online sites who host and display personal information are at the forefront of privacy and security protection, but individual users and governments all need to become more involved. Burghardt (et al, 2009) suggest that although various privacy mechanisms exist for location based services, it is unclear which mechanisms humans really find useful and how to make use of them. Their study indicated that no single mechanism meets all privacy needs.…”

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confidence: 99%

Children and geotagged images: quantitative analysis for security risk assessment

Kuzma

2012

IJESDF

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This paper investigates the levels of geocoding images with children pictures, and discusses privacy and safety issues that may affect children. This study analyzed the number of geocoded images of children's pictures on Flickr, a popular image-sharing site. For 50 of the top most expensive residential zip codes in the U.S., the number of images that had gelocation tags was counted. Results showed significant number of images with children's faces that had geotagged information. The location information could possibly be used to locate a child's home or other location based on information publicly available on Flickr. Publishing geolocation data raises concerns about privacy and security of children when such personalized information is available to Internet users who may dubious reasons for accessing this data. People should understand the implications of this technology and post only appropriate data in order to protect themselves and their children.

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“…A major detractor to LBS adoption is the privacy factor namely customer concerns about the use of personal data [44]. The ability to control a service (e.g., deactivate it) along with improved regulation providing effective enforcement of laws and regulations protecting privacy and governing the use of personal data including location may be able to address these concerns [22,26,27,33,35,36,45].…”

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Location-based services deployment and demand: a roadmap model

Petrova

Wang

2010

Electron Commer Res

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The advancements in mobile, wireless and positioning technologies have enabled applications and services such as route guiding and emergency call-out assistance. These and other similar services have become known as 'location-based services' (LBS). The literature on LBS development and deployment addresses technological issues (for example, usability and integration) and issues related to LBS implementation-including LBS business models, adoption and customer concerns and requirements. In the study presented here LBS development and deployment were investigated from a case study perspective and the LBS landscape is explored and analyzed. The study finds that while the regulatory environment has played a critical role as a success factor in the markets investigated some of innovative business approaches may have been equally important as customer demand generators. Economies on the road to deploying LBS should therefore focus on creating a supportive environment encouraging the development of services, which meet the identified needs and requirements of the target customer market.

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Understanding User Preferences and Awareness: Privacy Mechanisms in Location-Based Services

Cited by 17 publications

References 4 publications

Users Behavior in Location-Aware Services: Digital Natives versus Digital Immigrants

Users Behavior in Location-Aware Services: Digital Natives versus Digital Immigrants

Children and geotagged images: quantitative analysis for security risk assessment

Location-based services deployment and demand: a roadmap model

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