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Ghost privacy technique generates unlearnable location data

Researchers have developed a new privacy-preserving technique called Ghost for location data. This method generates plausible but unlearnable trajectories, which are sequences of check-in data that degrade the accuracy of models attempting to predict future locations. Ghost achieves this by perturbing the data onto the real-trajectory manifold using a frozen trajectory language model, making it difficult for adversaries to reconstruct or learn from the original information. AI

IMPACT This privacy technique could enable safer sharing of location-based data for research and development.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains a research paper detailing a new technical method. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Ghost privacy technique generates unlearnable location data

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  1. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Shuigeng Zhou ·

    Ghost: Plausible Yet Unlearnable Trajectories via On-Manifold Substitution for Next-POI Privacy

    A publisher who releases check-in trajectories inadvertently publishes a strong predictor of every user's future locations. We address this risk by generating unlearnable trajectories, perturbed sequences that yield victim models with degraded next-Point-of-Interest (next-POI) ac…