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Usability of Privacy Controls in Top Health Websites
Ravin Gunawardena, Yuemeng Yin, Yi Huang +5
With the increasing awareness and concerns around privacy, many service providers offer their users various privacy controls. Through these controls, users gain greater authority o…
Privacy Preserving Release of Mobile Sensor Data
Rahat Masood, Wing Yan Cheng, Dinusha Vatsalan +3
Sensors embedded in mobile smart devices can monitor users' activity with high accuracy to provide a variety of services to end-users ranging from precise geolocation, health monit…
A Study of Third-party Resources Loading on Web
Muhammad Ikram, Rahat Masood, Gareth Tyson +2
This paper performs a large-scale study of dependency chains in the web, to find that around 50% of first-party websites render content that they did not directly load. Although th…
Don't be a Victim During a Pandemic! Analysing Security and Privacy Threats in Twitter During COVID-19
Bibhas Sharma, Ishan Karunanayake, Rahat Masood +1
There has been a huge spike in the usage of social media platforms during the COVID-19 lockdowns. These lockdown periods have resulted in a set of new cybercrimes, thereby allowing…
Security Apps under the Looking Glass: An Empirical Analysis of Android Security Apps
Weixian Yao, Yexuan Li, Weiye Lin +4
Third-party security apps are an integral part of the Android app ecosystem. Many users install them as an extra layer of protection for their devices. There are hundreds of such s…
The Chain of Implicit Trust: An Analysis of the Web Third-party Resources Loading
Muhammad Ikram, Rahat Masood, Gareth Tyson +3
The Web is a tangled mass of interconnected services, where websites import a range of external resources from various third-party domains. However, the latter can further load res…