Newsletter June-July 2025

June-July 2025 Newsletter of the App-PI Project of the Privacy Engineering Research Group (IngPriv) at the University of Valladolid

During June and July, the Privacy Engineering Research Group (IngPriv) at the School of Computer Engineering at the University of Valladolid participated in several conferences, presentations and the defence of final degree projects by several students. Here is a summary of the main activities:

🌍 Participation in JNIC in Zaragoza, CISTI in Lisbon, and EWAF in Eindhoven

  • JNIC 2025 (National Cybersecurity Research Conference)

Alejandro Pérez de la Fuente presented his work on mobile application auditing, highlighting the importance of verifying whether apps actually comply with what they claim about the use of users’ personal data.

📃You can find more information at this link: https://ingpriv.uva.es/en/jnic-2025-presentation-by-alejandro-perez-de-la-fuente/

For his part, Pablo Abel Criado Lozano presented his research on mobile application permissions and privacy risks, showing how discrepancies between what apps advertise and what they actually do can lead to misuse of personal information.

📃If you would like to learn more about this presentation, please visit this link: https://ingpriv.uva.es/en/jnic-2025-presentation-by-pablo-abel-criado-lozano/

  • CISTI 2025 (Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies)

At CISTI, Alejandro Pérez de la Fuente shared his progress in methods for evaluating privacy and transparency in mobile applications, proposing tools that facilitate auditing and regulatory oversight tasks.

📃For further information, please visit this link: https://ingpriv.uva.es/en/cisti-2025-presentation-by-alejandro-perez-de-la-fuente/

In addition, Mercedes Martínez González presented the work of Pablo Abel Criado Lozano, a study on user privacy and security in mobile health applications, analysing specific cases of apps aimed at minors or vulnerable groups.

📃For more information, please visit this link: https://ingpriv.uva.es/en/cisti-2025-presentation-by-pablo-abel-criado-lozano/

  • EWAF 2025 (Empirical Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness, Eindhoven, Países Bajos)

Alejandro Pérez de la Fuente, together with Pablo Abel Criado Lozano and Mercedes Martínez González, presented the paper Fake Transparency: When Mobile Apps Say One Thing but Do Another, in which they analysed the inconsistency between what mobile apps claim about the use of personal data and what they actually do.

📃You can find more information at this link: https://ingpriv.uva.es/en/presentation-at-ewaf25/

🎓 Graduation Ceremony

In June, the graduation ceremony for the Class of 2025 of the School of Computer Engineering at the University of Valladolid was held.

During the ceremony, our colleague Alejandro Pérez de la Fuente, winner of the Special Award in the Master’s Degree in Business Intelligence and Big Data in Secure Environments (2023–2024 academic year), gave a moving speech. In it, he highlighted the great work done by the professors in both the Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes, and expressed his sincere gratitude to his family and friends for their support at every stage. We also accompanied some of the collaborators from the Privacy Engineering Research Group (IngPriv) who graduated on this day.

📃For more information, please visit this link: https://ingpriv.uva.es/en/graduation-ceremony-of-the-school-of-computer-engineering-2025/

📑 Final Degree Project (FDP) Defences

During June and July, several students defended their final degree projects, tutorized by various members of the IngPriv Group, all of which were related to privacy and security in mobile applications:

👏 Congratulations to all of them for their contributions and their great work!

If you would like more information about our projects or activities, visit our website or write to us.

📬 Contact:
gi.ingpriv@uva.es | apppi@infor.uva.es
🌐 https://ingpriv.uva.es/en/presentacion-english/

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