Bug Fixes, Improvements, ..., and Privacy Leaks

A Longitudinal Study of PII Leaks Across Android App Versions


Table 8. High-risk tracking

Summary of domains that track non-ID PII along with unique ID. There are much more small-scale domains conducting high risk tracking than the well-know Google owned domains. We group the following domains as google[*]: google.com, googleapis.com, doubleclick.net, google-analytics.com, gstatic.com, googleusercontent.com, googleadservices.com.

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Domain PII types leaked with ID #PII types #Apps #APKs
google[*] Location, Gender, First Name, Last Name, Email 5 124 387
kochava.com Email, Gender 2 8 36
vungle.com Location, Gender 2 7 34
mopub.com Gender, Location 2 6 13
doubleverify.com Location 1 5 7
aerserv.com Location 1 4 10
smartadserver.com Location 1 3 7
aniview.com Location 1 3 7
mmnetwork.mobi Location 1 3 9
56txs4.com Gender 1 3 11
omwpx.com Location 1 3 9
pokkt.com Location, Gender 2 2 3
goforandroid.com Email 1 2 12
googlesyndication.com Location 1 2 5
hfddlhmcvfvbskge.com Email, Password, Gender, Location 4 2 28
crashlytics.com PhoneNo., Email 2 2 2
inner-active.mobi Location 1 2 2
omqyioojvnwsmocx.com Email, Password, Gender, Location 4 2 30
sololearn.com Location 1 2 10
ninthdecimal.com Location 1 2 4
my.com Location, Email, First Name, Last Name 4 2 14
mediabrix.com Location 1 2 9
kiip.me Location 1 2 9
meet24.com Email, Password, Gender, Location 4 2 20
appboy.com Location, Email 2 2 7
adsrvr.org Location 1 2 2
applovin.com Gender, Location 2 2 12
startappservice.com Location 1 2 8
yahoo.com Location 1 2 9
trulia.com Location 1 2 14
umeng.com Location 1 2 8
textra.me Email 1 1 3
thefork.com Location 1 1 1
omniata.com Gender 1 1 4
opensignal.com Location 1 1 7
xiti.com Location 1 1 8
yabidos.com Location 1 1 1
mobeam.net Gender 1 1 4
yahooapis.com Location 1 1 1
yumenetworks.com Gender 1 1 4
tapsense.com Gender 1 1 2
soundhound.com Location 1 1 2
openx.net Location 1 1 1
socialquantum.com Gender 1 1 6
startappexchange.com Location 1 1 4
pinger.com PhoneNo., Gender, Location 3 1 4
staircase3.com Location 1 1 1
pushwoosh.com Location 1 1 1
qbk1.com Location 1 1 1
sdkbox.com Location 1 1 2
servedbyopenx.com Location, Gender 2 1 6
sponsorpay.com Location 1 1 3
smaato.net Location 1 1 7
midomi.com Location 1 1 18
speedtest.net Location 1 1 11
smule.com Email 1 1 3
2mdn.net Location 1 1 2
ksmobile.com Location 1 1 4
measurementapi.com Gender 1 1 3
altitudeplatform.com Location 1 1 1
bfmio.com Location 1 1 1
audible.co.uk Email 1 1 1
atdmt.com Location 1 1 1
appsdc.com Email 1 1 3
appnext.com Gender 1 1 2
angsrvr.com Location 1 1 1
amazonaws.com Email 1 1 1
aitype.net Email 1 1 1
branch.io Password 1 1 2
airpush.com Location 1 1 1
afftrx.com Location 1 1 1
adroll.com Location 1 1 1
adnxs.com Gender 1 1 2
adjust.com Password 1 1 1
acekoala.com Gender 1 1 1
aarki.net Gender 1 1 1
bluemailapp.com Email 1 1 10
cloudflare.com Location 1 1 2
maxpedia.org Gender 1 1 6
homes.com Location 1 1 27
loopme.me Location 1 1 7
localytics.com Location 1 1 1
life360.com Email 1 1 5
ksmobile.net Location 1 1 15
jquery.com Location 1 1 2
inmarket.com Location 1 1 3
ijinshan.com Location 1 1 7
glotgrx.com Location 1 1 1
cloudfront.net Gender 1 1 6
fuelbuddy-app.com Location 1 1 10
fqtag.com Location 1 1 1
fastmeet.com Email, Password, Gender 3 1 3
endomondo.com Gender, Location 2 1 2
easytaxi.com.br Location 1 1 3
damiapp.com Email 1 1 2
continental.com Location 1 1 9
zyngawithfriends.com Email, Password 2 1 6