A review paper on preserving privacy in mobile environments

Arunkumar, Saritha; Srivatsa, Mudhakar; Rajarajan, Muttukrishnan

doi:10.1016/j.jnca.2015.01.008

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“…Several works addressed privacy threats and implications because of specific technical and usage characteristics of mobile devices. These include the typical "one app at a time" use [10], the possible privacy leakage from the use of sensors [11], location privacy [12] or, more in general, privacy in mobile environments [13]. This paper, to the best of our knowledge, is the first to deal expressly with using mobile push notifications to bind real and virtual identities.…”

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Push Attack: Binding Virtual and Real Identities Using Mobile Push Notifications

2018

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Popular mobile apps use push notifications extensively to offer an "always connected" experience to their users. Social networking apps use them as a real-time channel to notify users about new private messages or new social interactions (e.g., friendship request, tagging, etc.). Despite the cryptography used to protect these communication channels, the strict temporal binding between the actions that trigger the notifications and the reception of the notification messages in the mobile device may represent a privacy issue. In this work, we present the push notification attack designed to bind the physical owners of mobile devices with their virtual identities, even if pseudonyms are used. In an online attack, an active attacker triggers a push notification and captures the notification packets that transit in the network. In an offline attack, a passive attacker correlates the social network activity of a user with the received push notification. The push notification attack bypasses the standard ways of protecting user privacy based on the network layer by operating at the application level. It requires no additional software on the victim's mobile device.

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Section: Privacy Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Push Attack: Binding Virtual and Real Identities Using Mobile Push Notifications

2018

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“…The literature related to consumer privacy in smartphones has been covered by researchers from various perspectives (Lian et al , 2013; Cheung, 2014; Arunkumar et al , 2015; Ghosh and Singh, 2018; Wottrich et al , 2018). Although much research on consumer privacy has been carried out and published, the literature on the subject remains largely fragmented.…”

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“…Although much research on consumer privacy has been carried out and published, the literature on the subject remains largely fragmented. For example, academics from various research disciplines have investigated consumer privacy in different contexts (Lian et al , 2013; Cheung, 2014; Arunkumar et al , 2015; Ghosh and Singh, 2018; Wottrich et al , 2018; Shankar et al , 2023). However, the research findings are inconclusive and fragmented, making it difficult to understand the factors that influence consumer privacy concerns.…”

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“…Research methods used in privacy researchKeith et al, 2013;Sutanto et al, 2013;Menard and Bott, 2020;Visentin et al, 2021;Gouthier et al, 2022) Literature review 16(Michael and Clarke, 2013;Cheung, 2014;Arunkumar et al, 2015;Smith and Kollars, 2015;Pennekamp et al, 2017;Bhuyan et al, 2017;Fong, 2017;Li et al, 2017;Asuquo et al, 2018;Tovino, 2019;Khan et al, 2019;Liu et al, 2019;Nurgalieva et al, 2020;Benjumea et al, 2020;Maseeh et al, 2021;Scarpi et al, 2022) Conceptual 21(Konidala et al, 2012;Lian et al, 2013;Bal et al, 2015;Chen et al, 2015;Cottrill and Vonu Thakuriah, 2015;Liu and Simpson, 2016;Choi et al, 2016;Alepis and Patsakis, 2017;Krupp et alTheories used in consumer privacy in smartphones…”

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Consumer privacy in smartphones: a systematic literature review

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Purpose This study aims to provide a systematic review of consumer privacy literature in the context of smartphones and undertake a comprehensive analysis of academic research on this evolving research area. Design/methodology/approach This review synthesises antecedents, consequences and mediators reported in consumer privacy literature and presents these factors in a conceptual framework to demonstrate the consumer privacy phenomenon. Findings Based on the synthesis of constructs reported in the existing literature, a conceptual framework is proposed highlighting antecedents, mediators and outcomes of experiential marketing efforts. Finally, this study deciphers overlooked areas of consumer privacy in the context of smartphone research and provides insightful directions to advance research in this domain in terms of theory development, context, characteristics and methodology. Originality/value This study significantly contributes to consumer behaviour literature, specifically consumer privacy literature.

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