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Spatial trajectories are being extensively collected and utilized nowadays. When publishing trajectory datasets that contain identifiable information about individuals, it is critically important to protect user privacy against linking attack. Although k-anonymity has been proven as a powerful tool to tackle trajectory re-identification, there still exists a significant gap in model efficiency, which severely impacts the feasibility of existing approaches for large-scale trajectory data. In this paper, we propose Gindex, a highly scalable solution for trajectory k-anonymization. It utilizes a hierarchical grid index and various optimization techniques to speed up k-clustering and trajectory merging. Extensive experiments on a real-life trajectory dataset verify the efficiency and scalability of Gindex which outperforms existing k-anonymity models by several orders of magnitude.
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This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC62072125) and the Australian Research Council (DP200103650 and LP180100018).
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Wang, Y., Hua, W., Jin, F., Qiu, J., Zhou, X. (2021). An Efficient Approach for Spatial Trajectory Anonymization. In: Zhang, W., Zou, L., Maamar, Z., Chen, L. (eds) Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2021. WISE 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13080. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90888-1_44
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