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posted on 2014-06-20, 00:00 authored by Gabriele PetronellaIn this thesis we present the design and the implementation of a tool to analyze privacy policies of Android applications, with the purpose of increasing the user’s awareness about privacy-related concerns. The goal of this work is to produces a tool, targeted to users who wish to evaluate the compliance of arbitrary Android applications to their own privacy poli- cies. The tool implements a semantic analyzer of privacy policies, able to extract relevant sentences from them and put them in relationship with the corresponding privacy-related permissions requested by applications. This work was inspired by the manual review of privacy policies of Android applications, and noticing how a common informal structure was evident across multiple documents.
History
Advisor
Zuck, Lenore D.Department
Computer ScienceDegree Grantor
University of Illinois at ChicagoDegree Level
- Masters
Committee Member
Sloan, Robert Zanero, StefanoSubmitted date
2014-05Language
- en