ICSI Researchers Receive Emilio Aced Research and Personal Data Protection Award

Paper: 50 Ways to Leak Your DataA team of researchers from the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), UC Berkeley, IMDEA, AppCensus, and University of Calgary received the Emilio Aced Research and Personal Data Protection Award from the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) for their 2019 paper "50 Ways to Leak Your Data: An Exploration of Apps' Circumvention of the Android Permissions System". That paper also received the distinguished paper award at Usenix Security 2019.

Dr. Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, ICSI Senior Research Scientist and one of the paper's authors, said on Twitter, "It is very satisfying and a great honour seeing how our research contributions to improve online privacy are recognized by public data protection agencies." Dr. Vallina-Rodriguez has worked with ICSI's Usable Security and Privacy group for several years, and recently received tenure at IMDEA in Spain. He is also a co-founder at AppCensus. Two more authors are current ICSI researchers as well. Serge Egelman leads the Usable Security and Privacy group at ICSI, and Primal Wijisekera is a research scientist in the group.

IMDEA published a press release about the award.