With the evolution and expansion of location tracking technologies such as GPS, RFID, etc. and their integration with handheld devices, lots of different applications have appeared. They use the user's location to provide more information to the application in order to commit their specific task e.g. Google Maps use user's location in order to tell him the shortest path to the her destination. However all of this location data is sensible data that could seriously compromise the user's privacy. There are different protection methods in the literature that try to reduce the risk of disclosure while reducing the loss of information as much as possible. We contribute to the existing literature with a framework for the evaluation of the protection methods, in terms of the risk of disclosure and loss of information.