Track Me If You Can: On the Effectiveness of Context-based Identifier Changes in Deployed Mobile Networks
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Date: 6 Feb 2012
Document Type: Briefing Papers
Associated Event: NDSS Symposium 2012
Abstract:
Location privacy is a major concern for mobile users. This work provides the first experimental evidence about the effectiveness of context-based identifier-change mechanisms in protecting users’ location privacy in currently deployed wireless systems. By means of simple probabilistic tracking algorithms in a real mobile network setting, we show that these techniques are largely ineffective in protecting location privacy of mobile users.