PALS: Privacy-Aware Location Sharing
Apr 1, 2010
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Funding: SNF · Apr 2010 – Aug 2013
Many consumers today willingly give up their current location information in exchange for location-based social services. This development poses great privacy risks. PALS aims at designing, implementing, and evaluating novel methods and tools to facilitate the privacy-aware sharing of location data with friends, strangers, and operators. Its goal is to offer a decentralized approach that supports all needed features of location sharing systems without the need to centrally collect location data.
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Silvia Santini is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Informatics of USI since September 2016, where she co-leads the People-Centered Computing Lab together with Prof. Marc Langheinrich. From July 2014 until August 2016 she held an Associate Professor position at TU Dresden, where she led the Embedded Systems Lab. From October 2011 until July 2014 she was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of TU Darmstadt, Germany, where she led the Wireless Sensor Networks Lab. From 2009 until 2011 she was a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Friedemann Mattern’s Distributed Systems Group at ETH Zurich, and from November 2010 until February 2011 she joined Leonidas Guibas’s research group at Stanford University as a visiting scholar. Silvia completed her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Friedemann Mattern at ETH Zurich in 2009, and graduated in Telecommunication Engineering (with honors) from the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, in May 2004.