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The Android PrivacyBreacher Project

An open source research tool and application that looks into the circumstances in which Android's permission model can be compromised to harm user privacy.
Note that we are not talking of exploits here, but normal usage of Android's APIs which can be manipulated in ways that can expose the phone user's privacy. For example. one issue is that apps can monitor the phone's screen state, which of course has legitimate uses. but can also be manipulated into:

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