Some of the mechanisms designed for location privacy protection are based on location obfuscation, which is explained in [5] as the means of deliberately degrading the quality of information about an individual's location in order to protect that individual's location privacy.
This is perhaps the simplest way to implement location privacy protection in LBISs because it has barely any impact on the server-side of the application, and is usually easy to implement on the client-side. Another way to implement it would be on the server-side, running periodically over the new data, or as a function applied to every new entry.
The main goal of these techniques is to add random noise to the original location obtained by the cellphone or any other location-aware device, so as to reduce the accuracy of the data. In this case, the user can...
