Bind your phone number with caution: Automated user profiling through address book matching on smartphone

ASIA CCS 2013 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGSAC Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 335-340

  Cheng, Yao ^a   Ying, Lingyun ^a   Jiao, Sibei ^a   Su, Purui ^a   Feng, Dengguo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOFTWARE   (China)

Author keywords

address book matching; privacy; smartphone applications; user profiling

Indexed keywords

ADDRESS BOOK MATCHING; COST-EFFICIENT; MOBILE PLATFORM; PRIVACY ISSUE; SMART-PHONE APPLICATIONS; USER EXPERIENCE; USER PRIVACY; USER PROFILING;

DATA PRIVACY; SIGNAL ENCODING; SMARTPHONES;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 84877990396     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2484313.2484356     Document Type: Conference Paper

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