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We describe a scheme which will allow location information from devices like active badges to be collected by an agent controlled by the user, hiding the user's location from the network infrastructure, so that the user may distribute the information about their location as they see fit.
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Jackson, I.W. (1996). Anonymous addresses and confidentiality of location. In: Anderson, R. (eds) Information Hiding. IH 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1174. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61996-8_35
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