A Survey on Privacy Preserving Approaches for Location Based Data

Abstract: Today security is a main issue for protecting private information.Various context-aware applications provide personalized services which collect user�s contexts through sensor-equipped devices to users. Because of shortage of a secure framework in networks has moved them to appropriate goals for different risks. As privacy is susceptible nature of real-time locality context of to users, many locality sharing applications use their strategies for gathering of private context. Adversary can misuse user�s context so there are various privacy preserving techniques which are used to protect user�s context. If the present location related data isprivatethen user�s current location information kept secret. Privacy preserving approaches for location based data are used to hide user�s location related information from adversary.

Keywords: Privacy, Security, Protection, Sensitive context.