A privacy service for location-based collaboration among mobile users
The potential loss of privacy due to the use of location-based applications may be one of the greatest obstacles to their wider acceptance. Nevertheless, most research about privacy management to-date has not taken into consideration the complexity in the utilization of collaborative applications th...
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| Format: | article |
| Language: | eng |
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2008
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| Online Access: | http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-65002008000400005 |
| Country: | Brazil |
| Oai: | oai:scielo:S0104-65002008000400005 |
| Summary: | The potential loss of privacy due to the use of location-based applications may be one of the greatest obstacles to their wider acceptance. Nevertheless, most research about privacy management to-date has not taken into consideration the complexity in the utilization of collaborative applications that may require users' location sharing among participants. In this article, we propose a privacy service that helps users to maintain their privacy policy in a flexible and incremental way. We also carried out a qualitative evaluation study whose results illustrate several challenges that should be handled in the design of such a service. |
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