Locus Guard Pilot

14th International Conference on Science, Engineering and Technology

自然科学;工业技术

Chandrashekar, Varsha^1 ; Prabadevi, B.^1

Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore

Tamilnadu

632014, India^1

关键词: Health status;    Know-that;    Location information;    Physical attacks;    Political views;    Turn offs;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/263/4/042036/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/263/4/042036

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Providing services to user is the main functionality of every search engine. Recently services based on users' current location has also been enabled with the help of GPS in every smartphone. But how safe are their searches and how trustworthy is the search engine. Why are users tracked even when they turn off the tracking. Where lies the solution. Unless there is a security system to prevent ad trackers from misusing user' s location, any application which relies on user' s location will be of no use. We know that location information is highly sensitive personal data. Knowing where a person was at a particular time, one can infer his/her personal activities, political views, health status, and launch unsolicited advertising, physical attacks or harassment. Therefore, mechanisms to preserve users' privacy and anonymity are mandatory in any application that involves users' location. So there comes the need to hide the location of the users. This proposed application aims to implement some of the features required for preserving users' privacy and also a secure user login so that services provided to users can be used by them without danger of their searches being misused.