Choffnes on Why It Feels Like Your Phone is Listening to You Feel like your phone is listening to your conversations? Turns out, it’s not that simple. David Choffnes (Northeastern) & collaborators analyzed 9,000 apps, checking for unauthorized mic and camera use. The verdict? No evidence of eavesdropping —but the data you do share daily…Continue Reading Choffnes on Why It Feels Like Your Phone is Listening to You
Landyn Sparacino graduated in 2024. Her research interests were in the areas of privacy policies and network analysis. She worked on providing support in the Frontier’s work on PoliGraph and was an undergraduate student researcher supervised by David Choffnes and Scott Jordan….Continue Reading Landyn Sparacino
Amogh Pradeep graduated in 2024 and is now at Crowdstrike. His research interests are on Mobile Security and Privacy. Particularly, he wishes to improve the state of user security and privacy. His research so far has included anonymous communication tools for phones and app security and privacy studies. He was advised by David Choffnes….Continue Reading Amogh Pradeep
Shuwen Sun’s interests lie in systems and networking, with an emphasis on designing techniques and systems to improve performance, reliability, and security for end device users. His research centers around “enabling” and “auditing” functionality that can be offloaded to edge, cloud, or network provider for end systems. PhD student advised by David Choffnes….Continue Reading Shuwen Sun
Daniel Dubois‘ current research focuses on understand the privacy implications of the Internet of Things….Continue Reading Daniel Dubois