Paper 2023/1043

An Analysis of Requirements and Privacy Threats in Mobile Data Donations

Leonie Reichert, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Abstract

In recent years, personal and medical data collected through mobile apps has become a useful data source for researchers. Platforms like Apple ResearchKit try to make it as easy as possible for non-experts to set up such data collection campaigns. However, since the collected data is sensitive, it must be well protected. Methods that provide technical privacy guarantees often limit the usefulness of the data and results. In this paper, we model and analyze mobile data donation to better understand the requirements that must be fulfilled by privacy-preserving approaches. To this end, we give an overview of the functionalities researchers require from data donation apps by analyzing existing apps. We also create a model of the current practice and analyze it using the LINDDUN privacy framework to identify privacy threats.

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Category
Attacks and cryptanalysis
Publication info
Published elsewhere. International Workshop on Privacy Engineering 2023
Keywords
LINDDUNPrivacy AnalysisPrivacyData DonationCrowdsourcingApple Researchkit
Contact author(s)
reicleon @ hu-berlin de
History
2023-07-05: approved
2023-07-04: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2023/1043
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2023/1043,
      author = {Leonie Reichert},
      title = {An Analysis of Requirements and Privacy Threats in Mobile Data Donations},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2023/1043},
      year = {2023},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1043}
}
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