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In particular, Trusted Third-Party approach relies on the trust of a third-party server, Cooperation needs the trust of other peers, Obfuscation is known to return inaccurate results, and Dummy generates too much overhead. Moreover, these and most of the other well-known approaches deal only with specific types of applications linked to the location-based services. In this paper, we present two new methods, namely: Blind Third Party (BTP) and Blind Peers (     B L  P    ), and combine them to form a new one to be known as the Blind Approach (     B L  A    ). With the help of simulation results we shall demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of      B L  A     over the other available methods. The simulation results also exhibit that      B L  A     is free from all the existing problems of the other approaches. However,      B L  A     causes a slight increase in the average (response) time, which we consider to be a minor issue. We shall also discuss the capability and superiority of the Blind Approach in the cases of E-health, Smart Transportation, and Smart Home systems.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s19153355","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,7,31]],"date-time":"2019-07-31T11:37:07Z","timestamp":1564573027000},"page":"3355","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":74,"title":["An Innovative Method for Preserving Privacy in Internet of Things"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3778-3366","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mohammad","family":"Yamin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Management Information Systems, Faculty of Economics and Administration, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yazed","family":"Alsaawy","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"2 Faculty of Computer and Information Systems, Islamic University, Al-Madinah 42351, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ahmad","family":"B. 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