Engineering Technology and Applications – Shao, Shu & Tian (Eds)
© 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-02705-3
A privacy protection model for location-based social
networking services
Rong Tan & Wen Si
College of Information and Computer Science, Shanghai Business School, Shanghai, China
Jian Wang
Cyber Physical System R&D Center, The Third Research Institute of Ministry of Public Security,
Shanghai, China
School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University,
Shanghai, China
Shanghai Chenrui Information Technolog y Company, Shanghai, China
ABSTRACT: Since the location-based social networking services emerged, the location privacy
issue has gained widespread concerns from consumers and researchers.