ASE 2024
Sun 27 October - Fri 1 November 2024 Sacramento, California, United States
Tue 29 Oct 2024 15:30 - 15:45 at Gardenia - GDPR and privacy Chair(s): Lina Marsso

Mobile apps often access personal information to meet business needs, raising concerns about privacy breaches. Compliance detection methods are proposed to check for inconsistencies between program code and privacy policies. However, existing methods face challenges with the low efficiency of static data flow analysis tools and often neglect physical data transmission destinations.

To address these issues, we propose an automated compliance detection method called GNChecker. It uses an efficient static data flow analysis technique with a segmentation strategy, significantly reducing the search scope and improving efficiency. Additionally, a fine-grained consistency detection framework is proposed by integrating static data flow and dynamic traffic flow results into a unified tuple form, i.e., (information type, transmission address). Evaluation results on 50 popular apps show that GNChecker outperforms state-of-the-art data flow analysis tools. Among 1,134 real-world apps, GNChecker identified 1,410 true non-compliant transmission behaviors in 379 apps, significantly surpassing existing compliance detection tools.

Tue 29 Oct

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15:30 - 16:30
GDPR and privacyTool Demonstrations / Research Papers / Journal-first Papers at Gardenia
Chair(s): Lina Marsso University of Toronto
15:30
15m
Talk
Giving without Notifying: Assessing Compliance of Data Transmission in Android Apps
Research Papers
Ming Fan Xi'an Jiaotong University, Jifei Shi Xi'an Jiaotong University, Yin Wang Xi'an Jiaotong University, Le Yu Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xicheng Zhang Xi'an Jiaotong University, Haijun Wang Xi’an Jiaotong University, Wuxia Jin Xi'an Jiaotong University, Ting Liu Xi'an Jiaotong University
15:45
15m
Talk
MiniChecker: Detecting Data Privacy Risk of Abusive Permission Request Behavior in Mini-ProgramsACM SigSoft Distinguished Paper Award
Research Papers
Yin Wang Xi'an Jiaotong University, Ming Fan Xi'an Jiaotong University, Hao Zhou Pattern, Recognition Center, WeChat, Tencent, Haijun Wang Xi’an Jiaotong University, Wuxia Jin Xi'an Jiaotong University, Jiajia Li Ant Group, Wenbo Chen Ant Group, Shijie Li Ant Group, Yu Zhang Ant Group, Deqiang Han Xi'an Jiaotong University, Ting Liu Xi'an Jiaotong University
16:00
15m
Talk
A Multi-solution Study on GDPR AI-enabled Completeness Checking of DPAs
Journal-first Papers
Muhammad Ilyas Azeem Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sallam Abualhaija University of Luxembourg
16:15
10m
Talk
CompAi: A Tool for GDPR Completeness Checking of Privacy Policies using Artificial Intelligence
Tool Demonstrations
Orlando Amaral University of Luxembourg, Sallam Abualhaija University of Luxembourg, Lionel Briand University of Ottawa, Canada; Lero centre, University of Limerick, Ireland