Trust and Privacy Concerns in Mobile Crowd Sourcing

Abstract

Crowdsourcinguis a method or a techniqueuin whichusolution to a problemuis given by dividinguthe problemuinto aunumber of smallutasks and thenuassigning them toudifferent users. Thisuassignment is doneuby broadcastinguthe taskuor theuproblem to theucrowd. MobileuCrowdsourcing (MCS) hasuevolved as anuappropriate methodufor collectinguthe datauor findingusolution of aubroadcasted taskuwhere theumobile phoneuusers can performuthe task anytimeuand anywhere as theyuwish. Theseutasks are takenuby the mobileuusers anduare solveduaccording toutheir perspectiveuand ability. Theucrowdsourced taskuis theuone whichurequires humanuskills and isudifficult forua computer tousolve. Therefore, mobileudevices play anuimportant roleuin Mobile Crowdsourcing (MCS) by beinguboth service consumeruand serviceuprovider at the sameutime. MCS holdsumany advantagesulike humanucapability, cost-efficiencyuand informationusharing. Theseuadvancement leadsuto theuconcern of: