Efficient Utility Improvement for Location Privacy

Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis, Ehab ElSalamouny, Catuscia Palamidessi

Abstract: The continuously increasing use of location-based services poses an important threat to the privacy of users. A natural defense is to employ an obfuscation mechanism, such as those providing geo-indistinguishability, a framework for obtaining formal privacy guarantees that has become popular in recent years.