Tradeoffs and challenges in maintaining location privacy in location-based services

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dc.contributor.authorAlzahrani, Thuraya
dc.contributor.supervisorCoady, Yvonne
dc.contributor.supervisorGebali, Fayez
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-27T21:28:09Z
dc.date.available2020-05-27T21:28:09Z
dc.date.copyright2020en_US
dc.date.issued2020-05-27
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Computer Scienceen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Science M.Sc.en_US
dc.description.abstractProtecting location privacy in digital services could not be more important. This research aims to protect the location of people who suffer from opioid overdose while seeking help from public, emergency services and professional responders with Nalox- one kit. A location privacy protection mechanism based on dummy locations was developed in this research to fulfil the requirement of location privacy. Unlike many dummy locations protection mechanisms that generate dummies based on a real lo- cation, the location privacy mechanism was developed in this research to generate dummies based on the nearest public location of the service requester. Additionally, dummies are generated locally on the requester side to eliminate the need for setting up a dummy generation service online that asks the requester to send his/her real location. An iOS application, SimpleNal-Pal was built to test the developed location privacy protection mechanisms. Twenty five testing cases were preformed. The re- sults show that the developed location privacy protection mechanism may be effective in generating dummies that cannot be reversed to the requester’s real location.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/11777
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectLocation Privacy in Location-Based Servicesen_US
dc.subjectopioid overdoseen_US
dc.subjectlocation privacy protection mechanismen_US
dc.titleTradeoffs and challenges in maintaining location privacy in location-based servicesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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