PRIVACY ASSURANCE IN LOCATION BASED SERVICES

摘要

Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system and computer program product for privacy assurance in location based services. In an embodiment of the invention, a privacy assurance method for location based services is provided. The method includes receiving a location of a mobile device corresponding to an end user of a multi-user enterprise application. The method additionally includes identifying a valid location of the mobile device that is at least a threshold distance from the received location and that is a public facility. Finally, the method includes presenting the valid location to other end users in the multi-user enterprise application in lieu of the received location.

主权项

1. A privacy assurance method for location based services, the method comprising:
computing a location for a mobile device corresponding to an end user of a multi-user enterprise application; identifying a valid location of the mobile device that is at least a threshold distance from the computed location and that is a public facility; and, blurring the computed location to other end users of the multi-user application by presenting the identified valid location to the other end users in the multi-user enterprise application in lieu of the computed location so as to maintain confidential the computed location while instead revealing as a location of the end user a location that is not the computed location but close to the computed location.