By GCN Staff
Feb 08, 2021
To ensure that contact tracing apps protect users’ security, privacy and civil liberties, the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate has tapped a startup to develop app testing and validation services.
AppCensus, based in El Cerrito, Calif., already has a platform for at-scale analysis of mobile apps’ runtime behaviors and their security and privacy risks. The $198,600 Phase 1 award will allow the company to adapt its system to test Android and iOS contract tracing apps and publicly post the results, including descriptions and sensitivity of data the apps collect and the data-use policies of the apps’ publishers and third parties.