SPRINGL 2011 Workshop Report: the Fourth ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Security and Privacy in GIS and LBS
Gabriel Ghinita · SIGSPATIAL Special · 2012
The ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Security and Privacy in GIS (SPRINGL) has reached its fourth edition on November 1st, 2011. Held in the opening of the ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS conference in Chicago, Illinois, the one-day SPRINGL'11 event has brought together academia and industry researchers from US, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Similar to previous years, the main workshop themes were privacy-preserving sharing of geo-spatial data and location-based access control. It is noteworthy that this edition saw an increasing number of presentations and discussions related to the issue of location security and privacy in social networks, which was dedicated an entire session this year.