期刊名称：Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications
印刷版ISSN：2093-5374
电子版ISSN：2093-5382
出版年度：2015
卷号：6
期号：2
页码：113-121
出版社：Innovative Information Science & Technology Research Group
摘要：People-Nearby Applications (PNAs) are becoming popular day by day. People try to find new ways for increasing their social circle according to their interests. PNAs provide people with a best way to find new people within one's physical vicinity by applying activities and interests filters. A large number of people using PNAs complain about privacy issues and fake users. Another big concern of people is the trustworthiness of a person they are going to meet, i.e., whether the person is a good per- son to meet or can be harmful. In this paper, we target to address a few privacy issues by proposing a four step approach to keep permissions limited so that everyone using PNA can enjoy the experience without having to care about privacy issues and other threats
