Your installed apps reveal your gender and more!

SPME 2014 - Proceedings of the ACM MobiCom Workshop on Security and Privacy in Mobile Environments

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1-5

  Seneviratne, Suranga ^a,b   Seneviratne, Aruna ^a,b   Mohapatra, Prasant ^c   Mahanti, Anirban ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Apps; Inference Attacks; Privacy; Smartphones; User Traits

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; DATA PRIVACY; SUPERVISED LEARNING;

INFERENCE ATTACKS; PRIVACY THREATS; TARGETED ADVERTISING; THIRD PARTIES; USER TRAITS;

SMARTPHONES;

EID: 84909578261     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2646584.2646587     Document Type: Conference Paper

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