There’s Wally! Location Tracking in Android without Permissions

Efthimios Alepis, Constantinos Patsakis

2017

Abstract

Context-awareness can be considered as one of the biggest advantage of smart mobile devices as it provides advanced features for developers revolutionizing user interaction and making users more engaged to the applications. Perhaps, the most important factor is location awareness as applications can refine their results according to users’ whereabouts. Nonetheless, users’ location is a very sensitive attribute as it can disclose a lot of personal information about them. To address such issues, mobile operating systems require users to grant specific permissions to the applications. This work studies a relatively new feature of Android, namely Wi-Fi P2P, illustrating that the location of the user can be easily disclosed, without using location permissions even in the recent version of Android.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Alepis E. and Patsakis C. (2017). There’s Wally! Location Tracking in Android without Permissions . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP, ISBN 978-989-758-209-7, pages 278-284. DOI: 10.5220/0006125502780284

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icissp17,
author={Efthimios Alepis and Constantinos Patsakis},
title={There’s Wally! Location Tracking in Android without Permissions},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP,},
year={2017},
pages={278-284},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006125502780284},
isbn={978-989-758-209-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP,
TI - There’s Wally! Location Tracking in Android without Permissions
SN - 978-989-758-209-7
AU - Alepis E.
AU - Patsakis C.
PY - 2017
SP - 278
EP - 284
DO - 10.5220/0006125502780284