© 2019 Kaniz Fatema and M.M. Mahbubul Syeed. This open access article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 3.0 license. Journal of Computer Science Original Research Paper A Privacy Protected Platform to Aggrandize Micro-Business Kaniz Fatema and M.M. Mahbubul Syeed Professional Member, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Article history Received: 25-07-2019 Revised: 01-10-2019 Accepted: 07-11-2019 Corresponding Author: M.M. Mahbubul Syeed Professional Member, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Email: mahbubul.syeed@gmail.com Abstract: This paper presents a platform, which will provide both the micro- businesses and its consumers a common ground to maximize their interests and benefits and in turn better contribute to the economy. This research work offers a comprehensive study on the micro businesses to portray their contributions and needs for expansion. The research then designs a conceptual platform to host, promote and manage businesses and their consumers. The platform is integrated with the MyGeoTrust privacy service for better protecting associated information. Finally, the research presents a prototype implementation of the platform in android to demonstrate its applicability. Keywords: Micro-Business, Data Privacy, Geo Tagged Location Data, Virtual Business Platform Android, MyGeoTrust Introduction Micro-business often refers to the enterprises that are having less than ten employees, including the owner himself Pfitzner and McLaren (2018). Moreover, micro- business served consumers within a given topographical location. Despite their size, such businesses collectively play a pivotal role within the overall economy of a country. For instance, the USA, the major economic powerhouse of the world, is enjoying 41.3 million jobs hosted by micro-businesses. However, studies show that businesses of this scale often suffer from a comprehensive platform to publish and commercialize their business services, mainly due to budget constraints and workers Vega and Chiasson (2015). Therefore, a virtual platform equipped with an adequate feature set is an inevitable need for these businesses to effectively promote and mobilize their business services to a larger group of consumers with greater visibility. Motivated by these factual needs, this research designed and implemented a platform to support micro businesses. The platform would offer a virtual mega mall with a versatile range of consumers. Each micro- business will have the opportunity to leverage this platform to expose their business services to a larger community of consumers. For instance, through this platform a business can freely register within a category of business, can unveil their products and services, offers and promotions and can get the options to interact with customers (e.g., contacting, booking, buying, location services and others). Additionally, a business will also assess their business rivals and fix business strategies accordingly. This practice in turn will create a healthy competitive market with the best value-added services for the consumers Huda et al. (2019). Another important aspect of the virtual platform is accessibility Deem and Brahnmath (2018). At any given time, consumers could effectively access to all the nearby business services, get their offers, compare among alternatives, favorite and log products and searches, subscribe for new promotions/offers, can do in- app communication and navigate themselves to the business places. In short, providing the virtual mega mall where they could get access to their desired services. However, a platform of such purpose and scale often suffers from a lack of user data privacy and protection Zhang (2018). For instance, most of the major players on the track, including Google, Apple, Amazon and E-Bay collect and use users' personal data without their consent. They often use such data to capture better market share over their rivals. Nowadays, with growing concern, such access to personalized data is highly denounced by Internet users Yar (2018). In this research, a virtual platform is proposed for a micro business that is directing to a single point references and get accessed to an attractive business service domain. In addition, the platform is integrating a state-of-the-art privacy protection service, named MyGeoTrust Guinness et al. (2015). We argued here that this integration would better protect users' data (for both business and consumers) from infringement and unauthorized access. To keep readers in sync, the mandate of MyGeoTrust project Guinness et al. (2015) is to offer a service that should provide privacy and transparency in crowd-sourcing user personal and location data as opposed to native platforms, e.g., Google.