Thwarting location privacy protection in location‐based social discovery services

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Minhui Xue, Yong Liu, Keith W. Ross, and Haifeng Qian

In this paper, we investigate the user location privacy leakage problem in LBSD services reporting distances in discrete bands. Using number theory, we analytically show that by strategically placing multiple virtual probes with fake Global Positioning System locations, one can nevertheless localize user locations in band-based LBSD.