Revealing Privacy-Impacting Behavior Patterns of Smartphone Applications
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Smartphone application usage impacts users’ privacy. However, due to the lack of an appropriate level of insight into sensitive information processing, users are not in the position to assess the extent of impact. In this paper, we propose an information-flow monitoring and privacy awareness-raising system that provides users with comprehensible information on how their privacy is impacted by long-term application usage. We further introduce and utilize privacy-impacting behavior patterns as a novel concept to detect particular privacyaffecting activities of smartphone applications. Keywords-smartphone privacy; notice; awareness; information flow
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