App privacy

Reading

• Spend 20 minutes per paper

  • Read the abstract and introduction
  • Understand
    • What is the problem they are trying to solve?
    • What did they do?
    • What did they find?
  • Skim the results looking for main findings or takeaways
  • Read the discussion section or recommendations, if any

• 50 Ways to Leak Your Data: An Exploration of Apps’ Circumvention of the Android Permissions System

  • Note: I recommend you watch the talk for this one instead of reading the paper

• Can you pay for privacy? Consumer expectations and the behavior of free and paid apps

  • Note: This is an article in a law journal, so it is a different format. But the same guidelines apply as listed above.