3 papers
cs.CR2025
Longitudinal Analysis of Privacy Labels in the Apple App Store
David G. Balash, Mir Masood Ali, Monica Kodwani +3
In December of 2020, Apple started to require app developers to self-report privacy label annotations on their apps indicating what data is collected and how it is used.To understa…
cs.CR2024
Unbundle-Rewrite-Rebundle: Runtime Detection and Rewriting of Privacy-Harming Code in JavaScript Bundles
Mir Masood Ali, Peter Snyder, Chris Kanich +1
This work presents Unbundle-Rewrite-Rebundle (URR), a system for detecting privacy-harming portions of bundled JavaScript code and rewriting that code at runtime to remove the priv…
cs.CR2024
Honesty is the Best Policy: On the Accuracy of Apple Privacy Labels Compared to Apps' Privacy Policies
Mir Masood Ali, David G. Balash, Monica Kodwani +2
Apple introduced privacy labels in Dec. 2020 as a way for developers to report the privacy behaviors of their apps. While Apple does not validate labels, they also require develope…