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Understanding Data Collection, Brokerage, and Spam in the Lead Marketing Ecosystem
Yash Vekaria, Nurullah Demir, Konrad Kollnig +1
The lead marketing ecosystem enables collection, sale, and use of personal data submitted via web forms to deliver personalized quotes in high-value verticals such as insurance. De…
We Are Not There Yet: The Implications of Insufficient Knowledge Management for Organisational Compliance
Thomas Şerban von Davier, Konrad Kollnig, Reuben Binns +2
Since GDPR went into effect in 2018, many other data protection and privacy regulations have been released. With the new regulation, there has been an associated increase in indust…
Before and after China's new Data Laws: Privacy in Apps
Konrad Kollnig, Lu Zhang, Jun Zhao +1
Privacy in apps is a topic of widespread interest because many apps collect and share large amounts of highly sensitive information. In response, China introduced a range of new da…
The Cost of the GDPR for Apps? Nearly Impossible to Study without Platform Data
Konrad Kollnig, Reuben Binns
A recently published pre-print titled 'GDPR and the Lost Generation of Innovative Apps' by Janßen et al. observes that a third of apps on the Google Play Store disappeared from thi…
Goodbye Tracking? Impact of iOS App Tracking Transparency and Privacy Labels
Konrad Kollnig, Anastasia Shuba, Max Van Kleek +2
Tracking is a highly privacy-invasive data collection practice that has been ubiquitous in mobile apps for many years due to its role in supporting advertising-based revenue models…
Imagining, Studying and Realising A Less Harmful App Ecosystem
Konrad Kollnig, Siddhartha Datta, Nigel Shadbolt
Desktop browser extensions have long allowed users to improve their experience online and tackle widespread harms on websites. So far, no equivalent solution exists for mobile apps…
GreaseVision: Rewriting the Rules of the Interface
Siddhartha Datta, Konrad Kollnig, Nigel Shadbolt
Digital harms can manifest across any interface. Key problems in addressing these harms include the high individuality of harms and the fast-changing nature of digital systems. As…
Mind-proofing Your Phone: Navigating the Digital Minefield with GreaseTerminator
Siddhartha Datta, Konrad Kollnig, Nigel Shadbolt
Digital harms are widespread in the mobile ecosystem. As these devices gain ever more prominence in our daily lives, so too increases the potential for malicious attacks against in…
Before and after GDPR: tracking in mobile apps
Konrad Kollnig, Reuben Binns, Max Van Kleek +4
Third-party tracking, the collection and sharing of behavioural data about individuals, is a significant and ubiquitous privacy threat in mobile apps. The EU General Data Protectio…
Are iPhones Really Better for Privacy? Comparative Study of iOS and Android Apps
Konrad Kollnig, Anastasia Shuba, Reuben Binns +2
While many studies have looked at privacy properties of the Android and Google Play app ecosystem, comparatively much less is known about iOS and the Apple App Store, the most wide…
A Fait Accompli? An Empirical Study into the Absence of Consent to Third-Party Tracking in Android Apps
Konrad Kollnig, Reuben Binns, Pierre Dewitte +5
Third-party tracking allows companies to collect users' behavioural data and track their activity across digital devices. This can put deep insights into users' private lives into…
I Want My App That Way: Reclaiming Sovereignty Over Personal Devices
Konrad Kollnig, Siddhartha Datta, Max Van Kleek
Dark patterns in mobile apps take advantage of cognitive biases of end-users and can have detrimental effects on people's lives. Despite growing research in identifying remedies fo…