Negative Results of Fusing Code and Documentation for Learning to Accurately Identify Sensitive Source and Sink Methods An Application to the Android Framework for Data Leak Detection. (arXiv:2301.03207v1 [cs.CR])

Apps on mobile phones manipulate all sorts of data, including sensitive data,
leading to privacy-related concerns. Recent regulations like the European GDPR
provide rules for the processing of personal and sensitive data, like that no
such data may be leaked without the consent of the user.

Researchers have proposed sophisticated approaches to track sensitive data
within mobile apps, all of which rely on specific lists of sensitive source and
sink API methods. The data flow analysis results greatly depend on …

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