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Android OS Privacy Under the Loupe -- A Tale from the East. (arXiv:2302.01890v1 [cs.CR])
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China is currently the country with the largest number of Android smartphone
users. We use a combination of static and dynamic code analysis techniques to
study the data transmitted by the preinstalled system apps on Android
smartphones from three of the most popular vendors in China. We find that an
alarming number of preinstalled system, vendor and third-party apps are granted
dangerous privileges. Through traffic analysis, we find these packages transmit
to many third-party domains privacy sensitive information related to …
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