Publication Details
The Value of Location Information
Danezis George
Kumpošt Marek, RNDr., Ph.D.
Matyáš Václav, Dr. (CM-SFE)
privacy, study, PET, location privacy, mobile phone
The price of privacy is a notion used quite often but there are alwaysdoubts about the correctness of the price itself. Privacy is a verycomplex notion and as such it is very difficult to evaluate it in thewhole complexity. We therefore took an approach of defining one rathersimple facet of privacy and came out with the following study.
When looking for a suitable we settled on location. Location is a quitepopular aspect as mobile phones can be used to eavesdrop on users'movements. Another argument for the location was a work published byGeorge Danezis, Stephen Lewis, and Ross Anderson. They have organised arelatively small study at the Cambridge University. The results werepresented 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 realisedthat this sort of study would be very interesting for the FIDIS projectwe are part of. This fact allowed us to organise a much broaderresearch.
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author="Daniel {Cvrček} and George {Danezis} and Marek {Kumpošt} and Václav {Matyáš}",
title="The Value of Location Information",
booktitle="not yet known",
year="2006",
pages="1--4",
address="Berlin"
}