Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2016
DOI: 10.1145/2903150.2903484
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A lightweight user tracking method for app providers

Abstract: Since 2013, Google and Apple no longer allow app providers to use the persistent device identifiers (Android ID and UDID) for user tracking on mobile devices. Other tracking options provoke either severe privacy concerns, need additional hardware or are only practicable by a limited number of companies. In this paper, we present a lightweight method that overcomes these weaknesses by using the set of installed apps on a device to create a unique fingerprint. The method was evaluated in a field study with 2410 … Show more

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