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How to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus is a major concern for most countries. As the situation continues to change, various countries are making efforts to reopen their economies by lifting some restrictions and enforcing new…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Patrick Ocheja , Yang Cao , Shiyao Ding , Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Mobile devices are used more and more in everyday life. They are our cameras, wallets, and keys. Basically, they embed most of our private information in our pocket. For this and other reasons, mobile devices, and in particular the software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Mario Linares-Vasquez , Gabriele Bavota , Camilo Escobar-Velasquez

Contact tracing apps have become one of the main approaches to control and slow down the spread of COVID-19 and ease up lockdown measures. While these apps can be very effective in stopping the transmission chain and saving lives, their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Dana Naous , Manus Bonner , Mathias Humbert , Christine Legner

Fairness is one of the socio-technical concerns that must be addressed in software systems. Considering the popularity of mobile software applications (apps) among a wide range of individuals worldwide, mobile apps with unfair behaviors and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Ali Rezaei Nasab , Maedeh Dashti , Mojtaba Shahin , Mansooreh Zahedi , Hourieh Khalajzadeh , Chetan Arora , Peng Liang

With an increasing number of users sharing information online, privacy implications entailing such actions are a major concern. For explicit content, such as user profile or GPS data, devices (e.g. mobile phones) as well as web services…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Tribhuvanesh Orekondy , Bernt Schiele , Mario Fritz

Sharing location traces with context-aware service providers has privacy implications. Location-privacy preserving mechanisms, such as obfuscation, anonymization and cryptographic primitives, have been shown to have impractical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Vaibhav Kulkarni , Arielle Moro , Bertil Chapuis , Benoit Garbinato

With mobile applications and associated services becoming increasingly popular, concerns are being raised about private data leakages have raised. Previous solutions to this well-known set of problems have approached it from the ground up…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Seyedmostafa Safavi , Zarina Shukur

This demo presents a novel end-to-end framework that combines on-device large language models (LLMs) with smartphone sensing technologies to achieve context-aware and personalized services. The framework addresses critical limitations of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Shiquan Zhang , Ying Ma , Le Fang , Hong Jia , Simon D'Alfonso , Vassilis Kostakos

As data privacy continues to be a crucial human-right concern as recognized by the UN, regulatory agencies have demanded developers obtain user permission before accessing user-sensitive data. Mainly through the use of privacy policies…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Md Rashedur Rahman , Elizabeth Miller , Moinul Hossain , Aisha Ali-Gombe

Large-scale collection of human behavioral data by companies raises serious privacy concerns. We show that behavior captured in the form of application usage data collected from smartphones is highly unique even in very large datasets…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Vedran Sekara , Enys Mones , Håkan Jonsson

With millions of apps that can be downloaded from official or third-party market, Android has become one of the most popular mobile platforms today. These apps help people in all kinds of ways and thus have access to lots of user's data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Xiangyu Liu , Zhe Zhou , Wenrui Diao , Zhou Li , Kehuan Zhang

Preserving the individuals' privacy in sharing spatial-temporal datasets is critical to prevent re-identification attacks based on unique trajectories. Existing privacy techniques tend to propose ideal privacy-utility tradeoffs, however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Yuting Zhan , Hamed Haddadi , Afra Mashhadi

Users worldwide access massive amounts of curated data in the form of rankings on a daily basis. The societal impact of this ease of access has been studied and work has been done to propose and enforce various notions of fairness in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Jia Ao Sun , Sikha Pentyala , Martine De Cock , Golnoosh Farnadi

Android users are increasingly concerned with the privacy of their data and security of their devices. To improve the security awareness of users, recent automatic techniques produce security-centric descriptions by performing program…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Tingmin Wu , Lihong Tang , Rongjunchen Zhang , Sheng Wen , Cecile Paris , Surya Nepal , Marthie Grobler , Yang Xiang

With the recent increase in the quantity of high fidelity games appearing on mobile devices and the recent trend of gaming focused mobile devices, there is a new requirement for a clear and comprehensive measure of the quality of gaming…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Hesham Dar , James Kwan , Yang Liu , Omiros Pantazis , Robert Sharp

Background Despite the benefits offered by an abundance of health applications promoted on app marketplaces (e.g., Google Play Store), the wide adoption of mobile health and e-health apps is yet to come. Objective This study aims to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Gokhan Aydin , Gokhan Silahtaroglu

In this paper we present the Privacy Dashboard -- a tool designed to inform and empower the people using mobile devices, by introducing features such as Remote Privacy Protection, Backup, Adjustable Location Accuracy, Permission Control and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Marta Piekarska , Yun Zhou , Dominik Strohmeier , Alexander Raake

Privacy regulations mandate that developers must provide authentic and comprehensive privacy notices, e.g., privacy policies or labels, to inform users of their apps' privacy practices. However, due to a lack of knowledge of privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Zhen Tao , Shidong Pan , Zhenchang Xing , Xiaoyu Sun , Omar Haggag , John Grundy , Jingjie Li , Liming Zhu

The aim of this paper is to study m-learning literature in order to propose and develop a privacy-preserving framework which can be used to foster sustainable deployment of mobile learning within open and distance education in Kenya.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Peter B. Obiria , Micheal W. Kimwele , Wilson K. Cheruiyot , Gitau Mwangi

Synthetic data generation is one approach for sharing individual-level data. However, to meet legislative requirements, it is necessary to demonstrate that the individuals' privacy is adequately protected. There is no consolidated standard…