September 28, 2022
Smart phones have brought us so many wonderful capabilities. They let people around the world access vast realms of information. They let app …
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 …
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 …
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 …
May 6, 2020
As part of the Tracking the Trackers project, we are inspecting thousands of Android apps to see what kinds of tracking we can find. We are looking at …
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 …