What is it about?
We analyzed the privacy practices of Android apps, for example, the permissions they are using and compared those to what the privacy policy of the app said. In many cases we found discrepancies that may point to potential legal problems.
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Why is it important?
Apps should do what their privacy policies are saying. Otherwise, how could users know what is happening to their data?
Perspectives
It was not expected that we found potential legal problems for so many apps.
Sebastian Zimmeck
Wesleyan University
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This page is a summary of: MAPS: Scaling Privacy Compliance Analysis to a Million Apps, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, July 2019, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.2478/popets-2019-0037.
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