Privacy Risk Analysis and Mitigation of Analytics Libraries in the Android Ecosystem

Xing Liu; Jiqiang Liu; Sencun Zhu; Wei Wang; Xiangliang Zhang

doi:10.1109/TMC.2019.2903186

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Privacy Risk Analysis and Mitigation of Analytics Libraries in the Android Ecosystem

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Privacy Risk Analysis and Mitigation of Analytics Libraries in the Android Ecosystem

Xing Liu, Jiqiang Liu, Sencun Zhu, Wei Wang and Xiangliang Zhang

05/03/2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2019.2903186

Abstract

analytics libraries

Android

privacy leakage

While much effort has been made to detect and measure the privacy leakage caused by the advertising (ad) libraries integrated in mobile applications, analytics libraries, which are also widely used in mobile apps have not been systematically studied for their privacy risks. In this work, we study what information is collected by the analytics libraries integrated in popular Android apps. We design and implement a framework called The work reported in this paper was supported in part by National Key R&D Program of China, under grant 2017YFB0802805, in part by Natural Science Foundation of China, under Grant U1736114 and 61672092. Zhu’s work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under grants CNS-1618684.

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Title: Privacy Risk Analysis and Mitigation of Analytics Libraries in the Android Ecosystem
Creators - without role: Xing Liu - Beijing Jiaotong University
Jiqiang Liu - Beijing Jiaotong University
Sencun Zhu - Pennsylvania State University
Wei Wang - Beijing Jiaotong University
Xiangliang Zhang - King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Identifiers: 9944931708331
Academic Unit: King Abdullah University of Science & Technology
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article