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Location Privacy Protection Game Against Adversary Through Multi-User Cooperative Obfuscation

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Multimodal data privacy protection and completeness verification method for mobile crowd sensing

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Privacy‐preserving enhanced dummy‐generation technique for location‐based services

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Privacy and Security in the IT Project Management

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A Location Correlation Differential Privacy Extension Scheme Based on User Spatiotemporal Characteristics

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An Arithmetic Differential Privacy Budget Allocation Method for the Partitioning and Publishing of Location Information

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Mobility-Aware Prefetching and Replacement Scheme for Location-Based Services

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A Study on Location Based Services and TTP based Privacy Preserving Techniques

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A User-related Semantic Location Privacy Protection Method In Location-based Service

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Source Location Privacy Protection Algorithm for Polyhedral Phantom Routing Based on Secure Zone in Autonomous Underwater Vehicle-Aided UASNs

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DPCK: An Adaptive Differential Privacy-Based CK-Means Clustering Scheme for Smart Meter Data Analysis

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Velocity-Aware Geo-Indistinguishability

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Enhancing Location Privacy through P2P Network and Caching in Anonymizer

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Privacy-aware friend finding in social network based on thumbs-up data

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User Sensitive Information Protection Scheme Based on Blockchain Technology

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Superstring-Based Sequence Obfuscation to Thwart Pattern Matching Attacks

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Multi-user Privacy Cooperation Game by Leveraging Users’ Service Flexibility

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Location Anonymous Query Algorithm based on Road Networks

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DSPPTD: Dynamic Scheme for Privacy Protection of Trajectory Data in LBS

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Privacy Protection Method for Vehicle Trajectory Based on VLPR Data

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Secure User Privacy in Population Physique Clustering and Prediction Based on Sport Questionnaires

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A High-Availability K-modes Clustering Method Based on Differential Privacy

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An Efficient Privacy-Preserving Scheme for Traffic Monitoring Services in Vehicular Networks

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Stability Control of Position Flow Fuzzy Estimation in Swarm Intelligence Aware Privacy Protection

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Ensuring privacy and correlation awareness in multi-dimensional service quality prediction and recommendation for IoT

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BPGT: A Novel Privacy-Preserving K-Means Clustering Framework to Guarantee Local $$d_{\chi }$$-Privacy

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A Deep Reinforcement Learning Methodology to Balance Geoprivacy and Local Search Utility in Location‐Based Services

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A Caching-Based Privacy-Preserving Scheme for Continuous Location-Based Services

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Cooperative Cache based k-anonymity for Enhancing Location Privacy

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Cache-Based Privacy Protection Scheme for Continuous Location Query

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DPPS: A novel dual privacy-preserving scheme for enhancing query privacy in continuous location-based services

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