Publication Details
The Value of Location Information
Danezis George (KUL)
Kumpošt Marek, RNDr., Ph.D. (DITS FIT BUT)
Matyáš Václav, prof. RNDr., M.Sc., Ph.D. (FI MUNI)
privacy, study, PET, location privacy, mobile phone
The price of privacy is a notion used quite often but there are always doubts about the correctness of the price itself. Privacy is a very complex notion and as such it is very difficult to evaluate it in the whole complexity. We therefore took an approach of defining one rather simple facet of privacy and came out with the following study.
When looking for a suitable we settled on location. Location is a quite popular aspect as mobile phones can be used to eavesdrop on users' movements. Another argument for the location was a work published by George Danezis, Stephen Lewis, and Ross Anderson. They have organised a relatively small study at the Cambridge University. The results were presented at WEIS 2005 workshop and the text of the paper can be found here - How Much is Location Privacy Worth?
The main goal of the study was thus stated: find out how people (primarily students) valuate their location privacy. We have realised that this sort of study would be very interesting for the FIDIS project we are part of. This fact allowed us to organise a much broader research.
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author = "Daniel Cvr\v{c}ek and George Danezis and Marek Kumpo\v{s}t and V\'{a}clav Maty\'{a}\v{s}",
title = "The Value of Location Information",
pages = "1--4",
booktitle = "not yet known",
year = 2006,
location = "Berlin, DM",
language = "english",
url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/7997"
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