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Sensibility Testbed: Automated IRB Policy Enforcement in Mobile Research Apps

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Yanyan Zhuang,

Albert Rafetseder,

Yu Hu,

Yuan Tian,

Justin CapposAuthors Info & Claims

HotMobile '18: Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems & Applications

Pages 113 - 118

https://doi.org/10.1145/3177102.3177120

Published: 12 February 2018 Publication History

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Due to their omnipresence, mobile devices such as smartphones could be tremendously valuable to researchers. However, since research projects can extract data about device owners that could be personal or sensitive, there are substantial privacy concerns. Currently, the only regulation to protect user privacy for research projects is through Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) from researchers' institutions. However, there is no guarantee that researchers will follow the IRB protocol. Even worse, researchers without security expertise might build apps that are vulnerable to attacks.

In this work, we present a platform, Sensibility Testbed, for automated enforcement of the privacy policies set by IRBs. Our platform enforces such policies when a researcher runs code on mobile devices. The enforcement mechanism is a set of obfuscation layers in a secure sandbox, that can be customized for any level of IRB compliance, and can be augmented by policies set by the device owner.

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Zimmeck SStory PSmullen DRavichander AWang ZReidenberg JCameron Russell NSadeh N(2019)MAPS: Scaling Privacy Compliance Analysis to a Million AppsProceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies10.2478/popets-2019-00372019:3(66-86)Online publication date: 12-Jul-2019
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Cappos JZhuang YRafetseder ABeschastnikh I(2018)Tsumiki: A Meta-Platform for Building Your Own TestbedIEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems10.1109/TPDS.2018.284624229:12(2863-2881)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2018
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Zhuang YRafetseder AWeiss RCappos J(2018)Four years experience: Making sensibility testbed work for SAS2018 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)10.1109/SAS.2018.8336779(1-6)Online publication date: Mar-2018
https://doi.org/10.1109/SAS.2018.8336779

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Sensibility Testbed: Automated IRB Policy Enforcement in Mobile Research Apps
1. Security and privacy
  1. Human and societal aspects of security and privacy
    1. Privacy protections

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HotMobile '18: Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems & Applications

February 2018

130 pages

ISBN:9781450356305

DOI:10.1145/3177102

General Chair:
Minkyong Kim
Samsung Electronics, USA
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Stony Brook, NY, USA

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Zimmeck SStory PSmullen DRavichander AWang ZReidenberg JCameron Russell NSadeh N(2019)MAPS: Scaling Privacy Compliance Analysis to a Million AppsProceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies10.2478/popets-2019-00372019:3(66-86)Online publication date: 12-Jul-2019
https://doi.org/10.2478/popets-2019-0037
Cappos JZhuang YRafetseder ABeschastnikh I(2018)Tsumiki: A Meta-Platform for Building Your Own TestbedIEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems10.1109/TPDS.2018.284624229:12(2863-2881)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2018
https://doi.org/10.1109/TPDS.2018.2846242
Zhuang YRafetseder AWeiss RCappos J(2018)Four years experience: Making sensibility testbed work for SAS2018 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)10.1109/SAS.2018.8336779(1-6)Online publication date: Mar-2018
https://doi.org/10.1109/SAS.2018.8336779

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