Location privacy protection is a key factor to the development of location-based services. Location privacy relates to the protection of a user's identity, position, and path. In a grid-based approach, the user's position is obfuscated in a number of cells. However, this grid does not allow users to adjust the cell size which relates to a minimum privacy level. Therefore, it is hard to fix various privacy requirements from different users. This paper proposes a flexible-grid-based approach as well as an algorithm to protect the user's location privacy. However, the user can custom conveniently his grid due to his requirement of privacy. The overlap-area problem is also counted in the algorithm. By deeply investigating on our solution, we also discuss open research issues to make the solution feasible in the practice. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Truong, A. T., Truong, Q. C., & Dang, T. K. (2010). An adaptive grid-based approach to location privacy preservation. In Studies in Computational Intelligence (Vol. 283, pp. 133–144). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12090-9_12
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