Revisiting Stealthy Sensitive Information Collection from Android Apps

In recent years, most countries and territories have put in place strict regulations for user privacy protection. Checking and monitoring the privacy policy compliance of mobile applications thus has become essential for users, app developers and device manufacturers. Nonetheless, this is a challenging task, as modern mobile operating systems like Android contain multiple channels through which third-party apps can obtain sensitive information. Besides the official APIs that are regulated by its permission system, the apps can exploit other channels such …

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