Follow you follow me: using location tracking to mitigate multi-device privacy threats

  • Authors:
  • Ben Paske;John Lyle

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Oxford;University of Oxford

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Workshop on Multi-device App Middleware
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

With the increasing popularity of mobile applications across all platforms, webinos takes advantage of this by providing a single platform for applications to be run within regardless of underlying operating system. It is based on web technologies and provides interoperability within multi-device systems. This paper examines the privacy threats as a result of this extra functionality, looking at likely attacks from different attack personas, examining existing threats to single device systems then seeing their application to multi-device systems, as well as developing new threats. Then ways of mitigating these threats using data provenance are demonstrated by using the tool LocationTracer.