Understanding online privacy—a systematic review of privacy visualizations and privacy by design guidelines

S Barth, D Ionita, P Hartel - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2022 - dl.acm.org
Privacy visualizations help users understand the privacy implications of using an online
service. Privacy by Design guidelines provide generally accepted privacy standards for …

Research on third-party libraries in android apps: A taxonomy and systematic literature review

X Zhan, T Liu, L Fan, L Li, S Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Third-party libraries (TPLs) have been widely used in mobile apps, which play an essential
part in the entire Android ecosystem. However, TPL is a double-edged sword. On the one …

A large-scale investigation into geodifferences in mobile apps

R Kumar, A Virkud, RS Raman, A Prakash… - 31st USENIX Security …, 2022 - usenix.org
Recent studies on the web ecosystem have been raising alarms on the increasing
geodifferences in access to Internet content and services due to Internet censorship and …

Mobile app privacy in software engineering research: A systematic mapping study

F Ebrahimi, M Tushev, A Mahmoud - Information and Software Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
Context: Mobile applications (apps) have become deeply personal, constantly demanding
access to privacy-sensitive information in exchange for more personalized user …

Happer: Unpacking android apps via a hardware-assisted approach

L Xue, H Zhou, X Luo, Y Zhou, Y Shi… - … IEEE Symposium on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Malware authors are abusing packers (or runtime-based obfuscators) to protect malicious
apps from being analyzed. Although many unpacking tools have been proposed, they can …

Measuring privacy policy compliance in the alexa ecosystem: in-depth analysis

HA Shafei, H Gao, CC Tan - Computers & Security, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Virtual Personal Assistant (VPA) services such as Amazon Alexa are quickly and
seamlessly integrating into people's daily lives. The Alexa ecosystem allows third-party …

Permpress: Machine learning-based pipeline to evaluate permissions in app privacy policies

MS Rahman, P Naghavi, B Kojusner, S Afroz… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Privacy laws and app stores (eg, Google Play Store) require mobile apps to have
transparent privacy policies to disclose sensitive actions and data collection, such as …

Demystifying privacy policy of third-party libraries in mobile apps

K Zhao, X Zhan, L Yu, S Zhou, H Zhou… - 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The privacy of personal information has received significant attention in mobile software.
Although researchers have designed methods to identify the conflict between app behavior …

Runtime and design time completeness checking of dangerous android app permissions against GDPR

R McConkey, O Olukoya - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data and privacy laws, such as the GDPR, require mobile apps that collect and process the
personal data of their citizens to have a legally-compliant policy. Since these mobile apps …

Listen carefully to experts when you classify data: A generic data classification ontology encoded from regulations

M Yang, X Chen, L Tan, X Lan, Y Luo - Information Processing & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Along with the proliferation of big data technology, organizations are involved in an
overwhelming data ocean, the huge volume of data makes them at a loss in the face of …