Farid YESSOUFOU

Dr. Farid YESSOUFOU

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Academic Career Length

3Years (2024-Present)

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28 August 2024 in Future Internet
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FYFarid YESSOUFOU
Farid YESSOUFOU
SSSalma Sassi
Salma Sassi
ECElie Chicha
Elie Chicha
Richard ChbeirRichard Chbeir
Richard Chbeir
Jules DEGILAJules DEGILA
Jules DEGILA
With the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), mobile crowdsourcing has become a leading application, leveraging the ubiquitous presence of smartphone users to collect and process data. Spatial crowdsourcing, which assigns tasks based on users’ geographic locations, has proven to be particularly innovative. However, this trend raises significant privacy concerns, particularly regarding the precise geographic data required by these crowdsourcing platforms. Traditional methods, such as dummy locations, spatial cloaking, differential privacy, k-anonymity, and encryption, often fail to mitigate the risks associated with the continuous disclosure of location data. An unauthorized entity could access these data and infer personal information about individuals, such as their home address, workplace, religion, or political affiliations, thus constituting a privacy violation. In this paper, we propose a user mobility model designed to enhance location privacy protection by accurately identifying Points of Interest (POIs) and countering inference attacks. Our main contribution here focuses on user mobility modeling and the introduction of an advanced algorithm for precise POI identification. We evaluate our contributions using GPS data collected from 10 volunteers over a period of 3 months. The results show that our mobility model delivers significant performance and that our POI extraction algorithm outperforms existing approaches.