From Data Privacy to Location Privacy: Models and Algorithms

This tutorial presents the definition, the models and the techniques of location privacy from the data privacy perspective. By reviewing and revising the state of art research in data privacy area, the presenter describes the essential concepts, the alternative models, and the suite of techniques for providing location privacy in mobile and ubiquitous data management systems. The tutorial consists of two main components. They will introduce location privacy threats and give an overview of the state of art research in data privacy and analyze the applicability of the existing data privacy techniques to location privacy problems.