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Android's permission system empowers informed privacy decisions when installing third-party applications. However, examining the access permissions is not enough to assess privacy exposure; even seemingly harmless applications can severely expose user ...

Securely storing sensitive personal data is critical for protecting privacy. Currently, many persons use smartphones to store their private data. However, smartphones suffer from many security issues. To overcome this situation, the PCAS project is ...

As wearable devices gain widespread acceptance among the general population, there is a crying need to ensure that relevant privacy and security vulnerabilities are to minimize the hazards. Biometrics become very important in our daily lives due to its ...

Android, one of the most popular open source mobile operating system, is facing a lot of security issues. Being used by users with varying degrees of awareness complicates the problem further. Most of the security problems are due to maliciousness of ...

The rise of sensor-equipped smart phones has enabled a variety of classification based applications that provide personalized services based on user data extracted from sensor readings. However, malicious applications aggressively collect sensitive ...

With the popularity of cloud computing, database outsourcing has been adopted by many companies. However, database owners may not 100% trust their database service providers. As a result, database privacy becomes a key issue for protecting data from the ...

Many applications of mobile computing require the computation of dot-product of two vectors. For examples, the dot-product of an individual's genome data and the gene biomarkers of a health center can help detect diseases in m-Health, and that of the ...