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Understanding User Privacy Perceptions of GenAI Smartphones
Ran Jin, Liu Wang, Shidong Pan +3
GenAI smartphones, which natively embed generative AI at the system level, are transforming mobile interactions by automating a wide range of tasks and executing UI actions on beha…
A Big Step Forward? A User-Centric Examination of iOS App Privacy Report and Enhancements
Liu Wang, Dong Wang, Shidong Pan +3
The prevalent engagement with mobile apps underscores the importance of understanding their data practices. Transparency plays a crucial role in this context, ensuring users to be…
On the (In)Security of Non-resettable Device Identifiers in Custom Android Systems
Zikan Dong, Liu Wang, Guoai Xu +1
User tracking is critical in the mobile ecosystem, which relies on device identifiers to build clear user profiles. In earlier ages, Android allowed easy access to non-resettable d…
Beyond App Markets: Demystifying Underground Mobile App Distribution Via Telegram
Yanhui Guo, Dong Wang, Liu Wang +5
Within the thriving mobile app ecosystem ecosystem, a subset of apps provides illicit services such as gambling and pornography to pursue economic gains, collectively referred to a…
A Tale of Two Countries: A Longitudinal Cross-Country Study of Mobile Users' Reactions to the COVID-19 Pandemic Through the Lens of App Popularity
Liu Wang, Haoyu Wang, Yi Wang +2
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted people's life around the world, including how they interact with mobile technologies. In this paper, we seek to develop an und…
Demystifying Removed Apps in iOS App Store
Fuqi Lin
With the popularity of mobile devices, mobile applications have become an essential part of people's lives. To provide secure mobile application download channels for users, variou…
Market-level Analysis of Government-backed COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps
Huiyi Wang, Liu Wang, Haoyu Wang
To help curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments and public health authorities around the world have launched a number of contact-tracing apps. Although contact tracin…
When the Open Source Community Meets COVID-19: Characterizing COVID-19 themed GitHub Repositories
Liu Wang, Ruiqing Li, Jiaxin Zhu +2
Ever since the beginning of the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers from interdisciplinary domains have worked together to fight against the crisis. The open source comm…
Beyond the Virus: A First Look at Coronavirus-themed Mobile Malware
Liu Wang, Ren He, Haoyu Wang +8
As the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in early 2020, a number of malicious actors have started capitalizing the topic. Although a few media reports mentioned the existence of coronaviru…
MadDroid: Characterising and Detecting Devious Ad Content for Android Apps
Tianming Liu, Haoyu Wang, Li Li +6
Advertisement drives the economy of the mobile app ecosystem. As a key component in the mobile ad business model, mobile ad content has been overlooked by the research community, w…