Characterizing Location-based Mobile Tracking in Mobile Ad Networks

2019/03/24 by Hu, Boyang, Lin, Qicheng, Zheng, Yao +3
#Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #FOS: Computer and information sciences

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1903.09916

Abstract

Mobile apps nowadays are often packaged with third-party ad libraries to monetize user data.

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