Learning Location from Shared Elevation Profiles in Fitness Apps: A Privacy Perspective. (arXiv:2210.15529v1 [cs.CR])

The extensive use of smartphones and wearable devices has facilitated many
useful applications. For example, with Global Positioning System (GPS)-equipped
smart and wearable devices, many applications can gather, process, and share
rich metadata, such as geolocation, trajectories, elevation, and time. For
example, fitness applications, such as Runkeeper and Strava, utilize the
information for activity tracking and have recently witnessed a boom in
popularity. Those fitness tracker applications have their own web platforms and
allow users to share activities on such …

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