Research on User Privacy Issues in VR/AR Class Mobile Apps
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https://doi.org/10.61173/k5kwft41Keywords:
Security and privacy, Data anonymization and sanitization Social network security and privacyAbstract
With the rapid development of the Internet, an increasing number of devices are interconnected through the Internet, making the protection of user privacy during the information transmission process increasingly prominent. This paper categorizes user privacy issues into computer and mobile devices and analyzes their specific threats. Towards the end of the article, we propose methods for protecting user privacy from three perspectives.
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