September 1, 2022
Governments across the world are moving services to mobile apps. The vast majority of these apps are only available in the Google Play store or in the …
March 2, 2021
There is a giant problem with the “collect it all” status quo that pervades on the Internet, this has been clear for a long time. Tracking …
February 18, 2021
Usability triggered a revolution in computing, taking arcane number crunching machines and making them essential tools in so many human endeavors, …
February 10, 2021
Greetings, all. I hope this finds you healthy and well, finding ways to enjoy the season (whichever it may be). While everyday still provides new …
December 15, 2020
A central focus of the Tracking the Trackers project has been to find simple ways to detect whether a given Android APK app file contains code which …
December 11, 2020
There is a new story to add to the list of horrors of Surveillance Capitalism: the United States’ Military is purchasing tracking and location …
June 8, 2020
Crowdsourced translation has opened up software and websites to whole new languages, regions, and uses. Making translating easier has brought in more …
May 20, 2020
This position paper tries to outline a framework for defining trackers in smart phones and lists mechanisms for identifying them. It hopes to serve as …
April 28, 2020
One key component of the Tracking the Trackers project is building a machine learning (ML) tool to aide humans to find tracking in Android apps. One …
April 9, 2020
There has been increasing interest in the possibilities of tracking people who are infected with Coronavirus using all of the various methods that …