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Uncovering User-Triggered Privacy Leaks In Mobile Applications And Their Utility In Privacy Protection, Joo Keng Joseph Chan

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Mobile applications are increasingly popular, and help mobile users in many aspects of their lifestyle. Applications have access to a wealth of information about the user through powerful developer APIs. It is known that most applications, even popular and highly regarded ones, utilize and leak privacy data to the network. It is also common for applications to over-access privacy data that does not fit the functionality profile of the application. Although there are available privacy detection tools, they might not provide sufficient context to help users better understand the privacy behaviours of their applications. In this dissertation, I present the …