Today, smartphone devices are owned by a large portion of the population and
have become a very popular platform for accessing the Internet. Smartphones
provide the user with immediate access to information and services. However,
they can easily expose the user to many privacy risks. Applications that are
installed on the device and entities with access to the device's Internet
traffic can reveal private information about the smartphone user and steal
sensitive content stored on the device or transmitted by the device over the
Internet. In this paper, we present a method to reveal various demographics and
technical computer skills of smartphone users by their Internet traffic
records, using machine learning classification models. We implement and
evaluate the method on real life data of smartphone users and show that
smartphone users can be classified by their gender, smoking habits, software
programming experience, and other characteristics.
外部データセット
network traffic of 143 smartphone users collected during 2014 and 2015