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most citedAndroid Permissions Remystified: A Field Study on Contextual Integrity

39 citations · 57 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CY2020

Surveying Vulnerable Populations: A Case Study of Civil Society Organizations

Nikita Samarin, Alisa Frik, Sean Brooks +2

Compared to organizations in other sectors, civil society organizations (CSOs) are particularly vulnerable to security and privacy threats, as they lack adequate resources and expe…

cs.CR2018

Cybercasing 2.0: You Get What You Pay For

Jaeyoung Choi, Istemi Ekin Akkus, Serge Egelman +4

Under U.S. law, marketing databases exist under almost no legal restrictions concerning accuracy, access, or confidentiality. We explore the possible (mis)use of these databases in…

cs.CR2018

The Accuracy of the Demographic Inferences Shown on Google's Ad Settings

Michael Carl Tschantz, Serge Egelman, Jaeyoung Choi +2

Google's Ad Settings shows the gender and age that Google has inferred about a web user. We compare the inferred values to the self-reported values of 501 survey participants. We f…

cs.CR2018

Quantifying Users' Beliefs about Software Updates

Arunesh Mathur, Nathan Malkin, Marian Harbach +2

Software updates are critical to the performance, compatibility, and security of software systems. However, users do not always install updates, leaving their machines vulnerable t…

cs.CR20176 cited

The Feasibility of Dynamically Granted Permissions: Aligning Mobile Privacy with User Preferences

Primal Wijesekera, Arjun Baokar, Lynn Tsai +4

Current smartphone operating systems regulate application permissions by prompting users on an ask-on-first-use basis. Prior research has shown that this method is ineffective beca…

cs.CY201512 cited

Risk Perceptions for Wearable Devices

Linda Lee, Serge Egelman, Joong Hwa Lee +1

Wearable devices, or "wearables," bring great benefits but also potential risks that could expose users' activities with- out their awareness or consent. In this paper, we report f…