đ Rethinking How We Locate Users on the Internet
Our paper titled “Rethinking Geolocalization on the Internet” has been accepted and appeared at ACM HotNets 2025.
Our paper challenges the status quo of Internet geolocation.
THE PROBLEM: IP-based geolocation conflates network infrastructure location with actual user location. As hundreds of millions adopt privacy-preserving technologies (Apple’s iCloud Private Relay, Google’s IP Protection, etc.), this fundamental mismatch becomes critical.
THE PATH FORWARD: We propose a new trust infrastructure that decouples user location from network location, providing privacy-preserving location attestation with user-controlled granularity.
For more details, check the paper.