From parental control to joint family oversight: Can parents and teens manage mobile online safety and privacy as equals?

M Akter, AJ Godfrey, J Kropczynski, HR Lipford… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Our research aims to highlight and alleviate the complex tensions around online safety,
privacy, and smartphone usage in families so that parents and teens can work together to …

Developers say the darnedest things: Privacy compliance processes followed by developers of child-directed apps

N Alomar, S Egelman - Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing …, 2022 - petsymposium.org
We investigate the privacy compliance processes followed by developers of child-directed
mobile apps. While children's online privacy laws have existed for decades in the US, prior …

Share First, Ask Later (or Never?) Studying Violations of {GDPR's} Explicit Consent in Android Apps

TT Nguyen, M Backes, N Marnau, B Stock - 30th USENIX Security …, 2021 - usenix.org
Since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect in May 2018, online
services are required to obtain users' explicit consent before sharing users' personal data …

Security and privacy analysis of youth-oriented connected devices

S Solera-Cotanilla, M Vega-Barbas, J Pérez, G López… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Under the Internet of Things paradigm, the emergence and use of a wide variety of
connected devices and personalized telematics services have proliferated recently. As a …

No privacy among spies: Assessing the functionality and insecurity of consumer android spyware apps

E Liu, S Rao, S Havron, G Ho, S Savage… - Proceedings on …, 2023 - petsymposium.org
Consumer mobile spyware apps covertly monitor a user's activities (ie, text messages,
phone calls, e-mail, location, etc.) and transmit that information over the Internet to support …

Protection or punishment? relating the design space of parental control apps and perceptions about them to support parenting for online safety

G Wang, J Zhao, M Van Kleek, N Shadbolt - Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Parental control apps, which are mobile apps that allow parents to monitor and restrict their
children's activities online, are becoming increasingly adopted by parents as a means of …

SoK: Social Cybersecurity

Y Wu, WK Edwards, S Das - 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We analyze prior work in social cybersecurity and present a structuring of this literature
based on its pertinence to four S&P-relevant social behaviors:(1) negotiating access to …

Analysis of security and privacy issues in wearables for minors

J Fuster, S Solera-Cotanilla, J Pérez, M Vega-Barbas… - Wireless …, 2024 - Springer
The increased use of wearables in recent years has fostered a great technological
development in this area, although without the appropriate supervision usability may go first …

Permpress: Machine learning-based pipeline to evaluate permissions in app privacy policies

MS Rahman, P Naghavi, B Kojusner, S Afroz… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Privacy laws and app stores (eg, Google Play Store) require mobile apps to have
transparent privacy policies to disclose sensitive actions and data collection, such as …

Betrayed by the guardian: Security and privacy risks of parental control solutions

S Ali, M Elgharabawy, Q Duchaussoy… - Proceedings of the 36th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
For parents of young children and adolescents, the digital age has introduced many new
challenges, including excessive screen time, inappropriate online content, cyber predators …