*Can Smartphones and Privacy Coexist?**
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/Assessing Technologies and Regulations Protecting Personal Data on
Android and iOS Devices//
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As smartphones become more ubiquitous around the globe, policymakers
inevitably have to grapple with issues related to the security and
privacy of these devices. To aid in this understanding, in 2015, the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) commissioned a team of
researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln
Laboratory and the RAND Corporation to assess smartphone users' privacy
from both technical and regulatory perspectives. This report documents
the team's approach and findings. On the technical side, it describes a
literature review and experiments performed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory
investigating the state of privacy of the two major smartphone platforms
in 2015: Google's Android and Apple's iOS. On the regulatory side, this
report describes a review by RAND of major federal regulatory mechanisms
for protecting privacy in the United States and provides a tool to
understand both privacy regulation and technology.
While privacy-preserving technology is improving, users' privacy
concerns have not been fully addressed by the technology itself.
Appropriate regulatory protections also play a role in protecting
smartphone users' privacy. Currently, many gaps exist between regulation
and technology: The two are not adequately paired to provide the desired
protections. We believe that many of these gaps can be identified using
a tool that the project team developed for policymakers. By combining
technical and regulatory components associated with smartphone privacy,
this matrix-based tool will help policymakers guide directions for
future research and assess the impact of technical and regulatory
solutions that have been or will be implemented.
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Continua qui: http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1393.html
