News
24
Nov 2014
PrivacyGrade in the News
Privacygrade.org is our web site analyzing the privacy of a million Android smartphone apps. So far, it has received press coverage from CNN, ITWorld, Pittsburgh Business Times, Forbes, Campus Technology, WESA radio, IEEE Spectrum, Heise Online, Toronto Sun, and more.
26
Feb 2014
Our Group's Work Featured as Top 10 Emerging Technologies for 2014 by World Economic Forum
"[A] team at Carnegie Mellon University has been looking at how to use smartphone data to predict the onset of depression by modelling changes in sleep behaviours and social relationships over time. In another example, the Livehoods project, large quantities of geotagged data created by people’s smartphones (using software such as Instagram and Foursquare) and crawled from the Web have allowed researchers to understand the patterns of movement through urban spaces."
http://forumblog.org/2014/02/top-ten-emerging-technologies-2014/
25
Feb 2014
USEC 2014 paper on The Privacy and Security Behaviors of Smartphone App Developers
Our team has a paper presented at USEC 2014 on how developers deal with privacy and security issues when creating apps. See the full paper here.
26
Dec 2012
Interview with CBS Morning Show on Smartphone App Privacy
Jason Hong was recently interviewed on CBS Morning Show about smartphone app privacy, talking about several surprising behaviors about these apps.
