Analyzing Privacy Policies of Zero Knowledge Cloud Storage Applications on Mobile Devices

Baalous, R., Poet, R. and Storer, T. (2018) Analyzing Privacy Policies of Zero Knowledge Cloud Storage Applications on Mobile Devices. In: 2018 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E), Orlando, Florida, USA, 17-20 April 2018, pp. 218-224. ISBN 9781538650097 (doi: 10.1109/IC2E.2018.00047)

Abstract

With the rapid growth of mobile applications and the increase number of mobile users, many cloud storage services started to design stand-alone mobile applications that can be used to access files remotely from mobile and share them. In this paper, an in-depth analysis has been performed on the privacy policies of zero knowledge cloud storage applications on mobile. The analysis includes the type of information collected, collection mechanisms, purpose for collection, sharing of information, user controls and information retention period. The results showed that most privacy policies addressed important areas of information collection, purposes of collection, information sharing and users' controls. On the other hand, many policies lacked detailed information of the data retention period.

• Item Type: Conference Proceedings
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Storer, Dr Tim and Poet, Dr Ron and Baalous, Rawan Sulaiman A
• Authors: Baalous, R., Poet, R., and Storer, T.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering; College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
• ISBN: 9781538650097
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2018 IEEE
• First Published: First published in Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E)
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