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[…] by others. If they could, it would be a major risk for all kinds of surveillance. Finally, there is the limitation of interoperability – Bluetooth signals from Android and Apple phones could not easily be interpreted by each other. Another current interoperability problem that the Google-Apple API will solve for is that existing exposure […]

[…] located because they direct calls to phones through local cell towers, which may be enhanced with GPS location data.  Operating Systems. Providers of mobile operating systems — Android (Google) and iOS (Apple) — may know where devices are located as a result of providing services, improving functionality, or enabling opt-in location features. In addition, […]

[…] vulnerabilities and providing systematic solutions to meet privacy expectations of consumers. He has extensive experience in mobile app analysis for privacy violations and implementing privacy protections for Android. He has published in top-tier security venues (IEEE S&P, Usenix Security) and usable security and privacy venues (ACM CHI, SOUPS, PETS). He received his Ph.D. from […]

[…] “free” counterparts, and documenting consumer expectations about the relative behaviors of each. We first present an empirical study that documents and compares the privacy behaviors of 5,877 Android apps that are offered both as free and paid versions. The sophisticated analysis tool we employed, AppCensus, allowed us to detect exactly which sensitive user data […]

[…] scalability, reliability, and data portabilityPart 1 •Mobile Apps•Hardware vs. Software•Source Code vs. Software•Front End vs. Back End•Walled Gardensbasic concepts What is an “app”?mobile appsMobile OS Global Market*: Android 76.03%iOS 22.04%KaiOS0.79%Windows 0.21%Samsung 0.21%*Source (June 2019): gs.statcounter.com& emerging app ecosystems…: hardware vs. software”software” –a generic term for the instructions needed for a computer to do specific […]

[…] scalability, reliability, and data portabilityPart 1 •Mobile Apps•Hardware vs. Software•Source Code vs. Software•Front End vs. Back End•Walled Gardensbasic concepts What is an “app”?mobile appsMobile OS Global Market*: Android 76.03%iOS 22.04%KaiOS0.79%Windows 0.21%Samsung 0.21%*Source (June 2019): gs.statcounter.com& emerging app ecosystems…: hardware vs. software”software” –a generic term for the instructions needed for a computer to do specific […]

[…] China had spent $200 million constructing the AU’s new headquarters in Addis Ababa, including its computer network.” Chinese -Authored Spyware Found on M ore Than 700 Million Android Phones By Chris Bing Cyberscoop (Nov. 15, 2016) https://www.cyberscoop.com/android– malware-china- huawei -zte -kryptowire -blu- products/ “More than 700 million Android phones, some of which were used […]

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[…] Data, Drug or Medical Product Type and Information, Number of Cases Advertising Identifier (Mobile Apps): A resettable, random identifier that mobile operating systems such as iOS and Android assign each device Biometric Data: Unique and identifying Information resulting from the specific tech nical processing relating to the physical, physiological, or behavioral characteristics of a […]