Passengers information in public transport and privacy: Can anonymous tickets prevent tracking?

dc.contributor.authorAvoine, Gildas
dc.contributor.authorCalderoni, Luca
dc.contributor.authorDelvaux, Jonathan
dc.contributor.authorMaio, Dario
dc.contributor.authorPalmieri, Paolo
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-21T15:34:36Z
dc.date.available2017-09-21T15:34:36Z
dc.date.issued2014-07-19
dc.date.updated2017-09-20T15:49:15Z
dc.description.abstractModern public transportation companies often record large amounts of information. Privacy can be safeguarded by discarding nominal tickets, or introducing anonymization techniques. But is anonymity at all possible when everything is recorded? In this paper we discuss travel information management in the public transport scenario and we present a revealing case study (relative to the city of Cesena, Italy), showing that even anonymous 10-ride bus tickets may betray a user's privacy expectations. We also propose a number of recommendations for the design and management of public transport information systems, aimed at preserving the users’ privacy, while retaining the useful analysis features enabled by the e-ticketing technology.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationAvoine, G., Calderoni, L., Delvaux, J., Maio, D. and Palmieri, P. (2014) 'Passengers information in public transport and privacy: Can anonymous tickets prevent tracking?', International Journal of Information Management, 34(5), pp. 682-688. doi: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2014.05.004en
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2014.05.004
dc.identifier.endpage688en
dc.identifier.issn0268-4012
dc.identifier.issued5en
dc.identifier.journaltitleInternational Journal of Information Managementen
dc.identifier.startpage682en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/4766
dc.identifier.volume34en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.relation.urihttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0268401214000620
dc.rights© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 licenseen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectPrivacyen
dc.subjectPublic transporten
dc.subjectSensitive data managementen
dc.subjectPrivacy preserving technologyen
dc.titlePassengers information in public transport and privacy: Can anonymous tickets prevent tracking?en
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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