The way you swipe your phone could be used to track you

guest · Aug 1, 2018

The way you swipe your phone could be used to track you
Swiping right just got a lot more problematic...
July 31, 2018
https://www.cnet.com/news/the-way-you-swipe-your-phone-could-be-used-to-track-you/

In a research paper presented to the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium in Barcelona last week, researchers from CSIRO Data61 in Australia found that "touch gestures contain sufficient information to uniquely identify and track users."

Through a purpose-built Android app, the team collected touch and gesture data, finding that writing samples can reveal 73.7 percent of information about a user and left swipes can reveal up to 68.6 percent of information.

By combining data on a person's taps, swipes and keystrokes alongside writing samples, researchers were able to reveal up to 98.5 percent of information about the user.

"While regular tracking tracks virtual identities such as online profiles, touch-based tracking has the potential to track and identify the actual (physical) person operating the device," the researchers wrote. "It can distinguish and track multiple users accessing the same device."
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mirimir · Aug 1, 2018

What is the "swipe", of which you speak? Damn, I am so paleolithic in some ways

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