Asian Journal of Engineering and Technology Innovation

Location Privacy in Geosocial Application

Ravi Ranjan, Pinkee Singh, Priyanka Patil, Mangesh Manke

Dept. of computer science Dr .D. Y. Patil Insti. of Engg. & Tech., Pune

Abstract

Now days, geosocial application have become part and parcel of our lives. But, these may be misused by someone to extract our personal info. The present paper put forth Locx that provides with improved privacy and with result quite certain. The primary thing that is done is to use secure coordinate transformation. This transformation would be used only by friends of a particular user. It allows the server to work properly and correctly without accessing the private data of the user. There are users where there is not a need for arbitrary pairs of users to be resolved. Hence, by distinguishing such location data through users social groups and further transformation can be used on location coordination. The coordinate transformations preserve distance metrics, enhancing the task of server to perform queries on transformed data. The transformation is a safe one, since the secret is the key to the data, which knows only to the users group. Here, we try to show that Locx has the capability to provide privacy and prototypes that is used in this, do the task efficiently and easily, making it near to perfect for mobile phones of the present day.

Keywords:

Location privacy, security, location-based social application, efficiency.