User-Controllable Learning of Location Privacy Policies With Gaussian Mixture Models

@article{Cranshaw2011UserControllableLO,
  title={User-Controllable Learning of Location Privacy Policies With Gaussian Mixture Models},
  author={Justin Cranshaw and Jonathan Mugan and Norman M. Sadeh},
  journal={Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year={2011}
}
With smart-phones becoming increasingly commonplace, there has been a subsequent surge in applications that continuously track the location of users. However, serious privacy concerns arise as people start to widely adopt these applications. Users will need to maintain policies to determine under which circumstances to share their location. Specifying these policies however, is a cumbersome task, suggesting that machine learning might be helpful. In this paper, we present a user… 
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