Privacy-Aware Gateway to Prevent Privacy Leaks from Smart Devices

Ahmad, Bazzi, Yoshikuni, Onozato, Yuta, Kiriyama

Smart devices are becoming an integral part of our daily life due to the various applications they can run. One recent study evaluated around 4000 applications and found out that more than one fifth of the evaluated applications　leak phone identifiers such as IMEI and phone number [17]. Many users would consider this as an invasion of their privacy; however, they are either unaware of the stealthy activities of certain installed applications or they don’t know how to prevent it. Similarly many companies have strict policies regarding leaking any data found on corporate phones and tend to reject most applications for this reason. We propose using a modified privacy-aware gateway that can block privacy leaks from the connected phones. We setup a working installation and get successful results with various applications; any phone identifiers are removed from the sent packets. Using this solution we can improve users’ privacy without consuming the computing resources of the smart devices.

Privacy-Aware Gateway to Prevent Privacy Leaks from Smart Devices

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