Visible to the public Scalable Privacy Analysis - April 2020Conflict Detection Enabled

Submitted by Serge Egelman on Tue, 12/15/2020 - 5:18pm

PI(s), Co-PI(s), Researchers:

  • Serge Egelman (ICSI)
  • Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez (ICSI)
  • Primal Wijesekera (ICSI)
  • Abbas Razaghpannah (ICSI)

HARD PROBLEM(S) ADDRESSED
Scalability and Composability, Policy-Governed Secure Collaboration, Metrics

PUBLICATIONS

Nothing to report this quarter.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS

  • We began building a taxonomy of the ways in which apps attempt to detect whether or not they are being monitored (specifically, whether they're running on jailbroken/rooted devices).
  • On March 17, 2020, the city of Berkeley (along with the surrounding counties) issued a public health order mandating ICSI's closure and that all residents remain at home. Because there is no telework agreement for this contract, we were instructed to stop work.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENTS

Egelman gave numerous talks and media interviews about this project, specifically how apps are tracking users.

EDUCATIONAL ADVANCES:

Egelman gave a guest lecture in a law school class about this research.

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