Section: New Software and Platforms

Mobilitcs

Functional Description: Mobilitics is a joint project, started in 2012 between Inria and CNIL, which targets privacy issues on smartphones. The goal is to analyze the behavior of smartphones applications and their operating system regarding users private data, that is, the time they are accessed or sent to third party companies usually neither with user's awareness nor consent.

In the presence of a wide range of different smartphones available in terms of operating systems and hardware architecture, Mobilitics project focuses actually its study on the two mostly used mobile platforms, IOS (Iphone) and Android. Both versions of the Mobilitics software: (1) capture any access to private data, any modification (e.g., ciphering or hashing of private data), or transmission of data to remote locations on the Internet, (2) store these events in a local database on the phone for offline analysis, and (3) provide the ability to perform an in depth database analysis in order to identify personnal information leakage.

• Authors: Jagdish Achara, James-Douglass Lefruit, Claude Castelluccia, Franck Baudot, Geoffrey Delcroix, Gwendal Le Grand, Stéphane Petitcolas and Vincent Roca

• Contact: Claude Castelluccia