Abstract:

Smartphones leak personal information about their owner when they use it to connect to the Internet. Despite recent coverage of these issues in popular media, raising aware- ness remains problematic since it remains largely invisible to the users. We designed a system, SASQUATCH, con- sisting of a network scanner and a public display, to draw the visitor's attention and inform them about these issues. SASQUATCH first gathers private information about pre- vious whereabouts, and then shows an anonymized version of this data on the public display to draw the visitor's at- tention. Next, SASQUATCH offers an interactive compo- nent that allows people to view the information their own smartphone is leaking in private, and then provides solu- tions (including a fully-automated smartphone application) for securing against future privacy leaks. A set of initial field trails has shown that SASQUATCH is highly effective in raising awareness.

Cite (BibTeX):

@inproceedings{DBLP_conf_mobiquitous_BonneLQL14,
  author    = {Bonné, Bram and Lamotte, Wim and Quax, Peter and Luyten, Kris},
  title     = {Raising awareness on smartphone privacy issues with SASQUATCH, and solving them with PrivacyPolice},
  booktitle = {11th international conference on mobile and ubiquitous systems: Computing, networking and services, MOBIQUITOUS 2014, london, united kingdom, december 2-5, 2014},
  year      = {2014},
  publisher = {ICST / ACM},
  pages     = {379-381},
  doi       = {10.4108/icst.mobiquitous.2014.258025},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.mobiquitous.2014.258025}
}