We propose a novel approach to privacy-preserving analytical processing within a distributed setting, and tackle the problem of obtaining aggregated information about vehicle traffic in a city from movement data collected by individual vehicles and shipped to a central server. Movement data are sensitive because people’s whereabouts have the potential to reveal intimate personal traits, such as religious or sexual preferences, and may allow re-identification of individuals in a database. We provide a privacy-preserving framework for movement data aggregation based on trajectory generalization in a distributed environment. The proposed solution, based on the differential privacy model and on sketching techniques for efficient data compression, provides a formal data protection safeguard. Using real-life data, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach also in terms of data utility preserved by the data transformation.
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Monreale, A., Wang, W. H., Pratesi, F., Rinzivillo, S., Pedreschi, D., Andrienko, G., & Andrienko, N. (2013). Privacy-preserving distributed movement data aggregation. In Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography (Vol. 2013-January, pp. 225–245). Kluwer Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00615-4_13
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