3 papers
cs.CR2026
Exploring Privacy Leakage and Data Disclosure Violations in the MacOS Application Ecosystem
Jyotirmay Chauhan, Kostas Solomos, Mir Masood Ali +1
The systematic and excessive data collection practices of tech companies have rendered online privacy both a necessity and a sought-after commodity. However, while the privacy risk…
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.CR2023
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…