CanaryTrap: Detecting data misuse by third-party apps on online social networks

Re:CanaryTrap: Detecting data misuse by third-party apps on ... by tln on Friday July 03, 2020 @11:29AM (#23724839)

16 out of 1024 apps... Surprisingly low. Lots of these are games, presumably funded by ads and/or iap, scrounging a few more bucks from email lists fits right in.

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Re:CanaryTrap: Detecting data misuse by third-party apps on ... by shehrozef on Friday July 03, 2020 @07:27PM (#23728539)

Hey, Lead author of the paper here. I would like to highlight that these detected apps amount to more than one percent of monitored apps. Considering Facebook has millions of apps, there could be tens of thousands of apps potentially misusing users data.

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Re:CanaryTrap: Detecting data misuse by third-party apps on ... by maaziowa on Friday July 03, 2020 @06:40PM (#23728255)

Its actually 16 out of 300 odd that were installed properly. But the goal was to prove this is a good way to monitor

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