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Quantifying Collaboration in Synchronous Document Editing
Adrian Pierre Sergio Pace, Louis Antoine Baligand, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen, Stian Haklev
Collaborative synchronous writing tools like Google Docs and Etherpad let multiple users edit the same document and see each others edits in near real-time to simplify collaboration and avoid merge-conflicts. These tools are used extensively across many do ...
2018"If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them'': A Usability Approach to Interdependent Privacy in Cloud Apps
Cloud storage services, like Dropbox and Google Drive, have growing ecosystems of 3rd party apps that are designed to work with users’ cloud files. Such apps often request full access to users’ files, including files shared with collaborators. Hence, whene ...
2017The Curious Case of the PDF Converter that Likes Mozart: Dissecting and Mitigating the Privacy Risk of Personal Cloud Apps
Karl Aberer, Hamza Harkous, Rameez Rahman, Bojan Karlas
Third party apps that work on top of personal cloud services such as Google Drive and Dropbox, require access to the user’s data in order to provide some functionality. Through detailed analysis of a hundred popular Google Drive apps from Google’s Chrome s ...
2016Data-Driven Privacy Indicators
Karl Aberer, Hamza Harkous, Rameez Rahman
Third party applications work on top of existing platforms that host users’ data. Although these apps access this data to provide users with specific services, they can also use it for monetization or profiling purposes. In practice, there is a significant ...
2016