Technological advancement provides people with great opportunities as well as expose them to numerous risks. The indoor and outdoor positioning of fleets, people, and places has become a common practice around the world. People use modern technologies to communicate with friends and family through calls and texts, access the internet, and search for directions among many other reasons; thus, integrating the use of such gadgets into their daily lives.The idea in the presentation“Location Privacy & Preserving Location Anonymity In Indoor Space”is that mobile phones and computerized devices capture and store the location of the owner. As a result, safety measures should be placed to ensure location privacy for the user. The presentation enhanced my understanding of the reasons for the various applications to provide contextual information related to the location of places.

Location-based services (LBS) have rapidly advanced, and, as a result, enhanced indoor mapping of various positions within a building. For instance, schools, airports, and shopping centers are equipped with WLAN networks that aid in the use of online mapping applications. However, the tracking data in LBS pose the risk of a location privacy violation to the users. In other words,LBS subjects users to the possibility of a third party locating their position. Even though the presenter demonstrated various ways of reducing location exposure through anonymity, still users are concerned about the Genuity of the custodian of the anonymized data and its safety from re-use or misuse.

LBS has impacted the adoption and implementation of policies that offer adequate privacy protection. The adoption of location exposure safety measures such as k-anonymity, pseudonyms, and location cloaking has significantly provided necessarily user protection. However, the shifting technological know-how presents advanced ways of encrypting the algorithms used in the above location exposure measures, and thus it indicates the rate of the risks users are exposed to.