Date: 19th November Venue: Columbia University - NYC
Visualization of Personal Information Leaks
This hack consists in creating a visualisation to show how Personal Information is leaked by the applications people have in their smartphones. It's suggested to leverage the Dataset that ReCon project has been gathering from hundreds of users.
Visualization
ReCon Dataset: http://recon.meddle.mobi/json/data.json Example Visualization: http://datatransparencylab.github.io/recon/
ReCon Project: http://recon.meddle.mobi/
Daniel Coloma Dave Choffnes
Visualization of Privacy Census Insights
This hacks consists in creating a visualisation to show how extended are some tracking practices over the Web.
Visualization
The complete datasets are available: https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/webcensus/#data The results of the analytics are also available
Privacy Census Homepage: https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/webcensus/
Daniel Coloma Steven Englehardt
Education Material based on FDVT
Facebook Data Valuation Tool is a Browser plugin that shows end-user an estimation of the value they are generating to Facebook based on her browsing activity. The idea of this hack is creation companion education material that based on the tool, let users understand clearly the value they have for facebook, and on which facets do their value depend. Education Material could be some statistics/data, a vídeo, a website, etc.
Education Material
Tool: Datasets:
FDVT Homepage: http://fdvt.org/fdvt/
Daniel Coloma Ángel Cuevas
Browser Plugin using ReCon API
ReCon API is an API developed on top of the Dataset gathered by the ReCon project. It lets developers check if an app is leaking PI or whether a domain is receiving information from multiple apps. The idea would be using this API to develop a browser plugin that informs user about different aspects: Provide information available about the apps (based on ReCon) when browsing Google Play or App Store or information about bad domains detected by Recon.
Tool
API: http://datatransparencylab.github.io/recon-api/
ReCon Project: http://recon.meddle.mobi/
Daniel Coloma Dave Choffnes
Application Auditor
ReCon API is an API developed on top of the Dataset gathered by the ReCon project. It lets developers check if an app is leaking PI or whether a domain is receiving information from multiple apps. The idea would be using this API to develop an Android application that let users scan their Android apps and tell them if any of the apps has been spotted before sharing PI. A variant of this approach would be using ReCon API to detect potentially bad connetions.
Tool
API: http://datatransparencylab.github.io/recon-api/
ReCon Project: http://recon.meddle.mobi/
Daniel Coloma Dave Choffnes
Fingerprinting detection on-the-fly
How revealing your public information is
Floodwatch: improve ad-detection? extend? need open-source