I-Corps: Commercialization Feasibility Research and Demonstration Preparation for Privacy-Preserving Location Based Services

I-Corps：隐私保护位置服务的商业化可行性研究和示范准备

• 批准号: 1158737
• 负责人: Nan Zhang
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: George Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-10-01 至 2013-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1158737&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Commercialization; Feasibility; Research; Demonstration

The successful completion of this project will lead to a clear go/no-go decision regarding the viability of commercializing the privacy-preserving location based services (LBS) techniques the PI developed in two NSF-sponsored research projects. Should a favorable decision be made, this project will also produce a transition plan for commercialization and a mobile application for demonstrating the privacy-preserving Location-Based-Services (LBS) technology to potential partners. LBS, are widely prevalent on the web but also raise privacy concerns, as evidenced by the negative publicity surrounding jigh-profile inadvertent collection of location data in mobile devices. The PI's privacy-preserving techniques enable LBS without violating a user?s privacy. Specifically, the techniques protect two types of privacy: (1) location privacy - i.e., the team prevents an LBS server from learning a user's real location; (2) query privacy - i.e., the team prevents the LBS server from learning what the user is searching for (e.g., bar, museum). At the same time, the echniques maintain the quality of LBS by providing the user with extremely accurate, if not precise, LBS query answers. This project will has the potential to have broader impacts on the nation?s high-tech industries. The ability to control when (and whether) an employee's location can or cannot be disclosed to an LBS server is needed by a wide variety of security-sensitive corporations, governments, and security agencies. Similarly, empirically validated means to protect the location privacy of ordinary users of mobile devices will benefit the wireless user community at large, in addition to LBS providers and wireless carriers. This project will also have broader impacts on the market of mobile LBS. In particular, the team's offering of a privacy-preserving LBS application is expected to raise wireless users' awareness of privacy issues surrounding LBS, and to eventually convince most LBS providers to add privacy-preserving features to their systems (e.g., by integrating and/or licensing the proposed techniques). The broader impact of this project also extends to the research community and academia. In particular, the market studies conducted in the project will enhance scientific and technological understanding of the location privacy problem.

该项目的成功完成将导致一个明确的去/不去决定商业化的隐私保护基于位置的服务（LBS）技术的PI在两个NSF赞助的研究项目开发的可行性。如果做出有利的决定，该项目还将制定商业化的过渡计划和移动的应用程序，以向潜在合作伙伴展示隐私保护的基于位置的服务（LBS）技术。LBS在网络上广泛流行，但也引起了隐私问题，正如围绕移动的设备中位置数据的jig-profile无意收集的负面宣传所证明的那样。PI的隐私保护技术使LBS不会侵犯用户？的隐私。具体地，这些技术保护两种类型的隐私：（1）位置隐私-即，该团队阻止LBS服务器获知用户的真实的位置;（2）查询隐私-即，团队阻止LBS服务器了解用户正在搜索什么（例如，酒吧、博物馆）。与此同时，这些技术通过为用户提供极其准确（如果不是精确的话）的LBS查询答案来保持LBS的质量。这个项目将有可能对国家产生更广泛的影响？的高科技产业。控制何时（以及是否）可以向LBS服务器披露员工位置的能力是各种安全敏感公司、政府和安全机构所需要的。类似地，除了LBS提供商和无线运营商之外，保护移动的设备的普通用户的位置隐私的经经验验证的手段将使整个无线用户社区受益。该项目也将对移动的LBS市场产生更广泛的影响。特别是，该团队提供的隐私保护LBS应用程序有望提高无线用户对LBS隐私问题的认识，并最终说服大多数LBS提供商在其系统中添加隐私保护功能（例如，通过集成和/或许可所提出的技术）。该项目的更广泛影响还延伸到研究界和学术界。特别是，在该项目中进行的市场研究将提高对位置隐私问题的科学和技术理解。