Your Neighbors Are My Spies: Location and other Privacy Concerns in GLBT-focused Location-based Dating Applications [article]

Nguyen Phong Hoang, Yasuhito Asano, Masatoshi Yoshikawa
2016 pre-print
Trilateration is one of the well-known threat models to the user's location privacy in location-based apps, especially those contain highly sensitive information such as dating apps. The threat model mainly bases on the publicly shown distance from a targeted victim to the adversary to pinpoint the victim's location. As a countermeasure, most of location-based apps have already implemented the 'hide distance' function, or added noise to the publicly shown distance in order to protect their
more » ... s location privacy. The effectiveness of such approaches however is still questionable.
doi:10.13140/rg.2.1.3584.8081 arXiv:1604.08235v1 fatcat:zdk7yium6nggfkayfskz3f2ejy