GANs Based Density Distribution Privacy-Preservation on Mobility Data

With the development of mobile devices and GPS, plenty of Location-based Services (LBSs) have emerged in these years. LBSs can be applied in a variety of contexts, such as health, entertainment, and personal life. The location based data that contains significant personal information is released for analysing and mining. The privacy information of users can be attacked from the published data. In this paper, we investigate the problem of privacy-preservation of density distribution on mobility data. Different from adding noises into the original data for privacy protection, we devise the Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to train the generator and discriminator for generating the privacy-preserved data. We conduct extensive experiments on two real world mobile datasets. It is demonstrated that our method outperforms the differential privacy approach in both data utility and attack error.