Our phones have become objects that we don't even walk around the house without, and what many people don't know is that they can be used by other people to spy on us, and not exactly as you imagine. More precisely, the classic methods of spying and identifying phone users can be replaced by a system that is based only on swipes and touches of the screen, something that no one thought was possible until now.
A group of researchers from CSIRO Data61 in Australia managed to discover that the way a user interacts with the phone screen by touching and sliding can be used to identify him and spy on him. A special application for Android was created to test the system, revealing the fact that written texts can reveal 73.7% of the information needed to identify a user, and swipes can reveal only 68.6% of the necessary data.
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The researchers say that if they combined data on swipes, touches, and texts written by a user on the phone screen, they would provide 98.5% of the information needed for identification, or interactions. The even more interesting part is that this system allows the identification of a user even if he uses different mobile terminals, all based on the way he interacts with the applications in which this advanced monitoring system for mobile terminals is implemented.
"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. It can distinguish and track multiple users accessing the same device.”
The worst part is that most applications analyze the data regarding the touches and swipes made by users, in the vast majority of cases without notifying people that this is happening. In this idea, almost any developer can spy on users who use their applications and can identify them even if they change terminals, but use the same application, so you don't have to be surprised if you are identified on multiple terminals.
