Office 365 v. Google Apps: A data protection perspective

A First Look at Ad Blocking Apps on Google Play

Online advertisers and analytics services (or trackers), are constantly tracking users activities as they access web services either through browsers or a mobile apps. Numerous tools such as browser plugins and specialized mobile apps have been proposed to limit intrusive advertisements and prevent tracking on desktop computing and mobile phones. For desktop computing, browser plugins are heavi...

Google Script - Enterprise Application Essentials: Adding Functionality to Your Google Apps

Which Apps have Privacy Policies? An analysis of over one million Google Play Store apps

Privacy policies are intended to describe smartphone apps’ data collection and use practices. However, less than half of apps on the US Google Play Store link to a policy. The resulting opacity of privacy practices hinders users, regulators, and privacy organizations from evaluating apps’ privacy practices. This study shines light on the distribution of privacy policies in the Android ecosystem...

Applying Naive Bayes Classification to Google Play Apps Categorization

There are over one million apps on Google Play Store and over half a million publishers. Having such a huge number of apps and developers can pose a challenge to app users and new publishers on the store. Discovering apps can be challenging if apps are not correctly published in the right category, and, in turn, reduce earnings for app developers. Additionally, with over 41 categories on Google...

Protection Apps for Android – Feb. 2013

At present, over 15 million smartphones in Germany use Android as an operating system. This number does not even include the additional millions of Android tablets that are currently in use. Surveys have shown that every Android device uses at least 20 other apps. Despite this fact, not one of the top 20 most popular smartphone apps is an antivirus app, which is completely incomprehensible give...