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At present, the use of smartphones has reached a boom. With the increase in the use of smartphones, the need for protecting such devices from theft has also come up. A number of anti-theft mechanisms are designed so far to protect the smartphones from being stolen away. However, only anti-theft mechanisms are not enough. A good data protection technique should be coupled with a strong anti-theft mechanism such that, even if the device is stolen, the confidential data does not go into the wrong hands. In this paper, a new anti-theft mechanism combined with a robust data protection technique is designed for smartphones. In this work, context-awareness is used as a decision-making technique to automatically determine a theft of the device and as a consequence data protection technique, tracking mechanism and recovery system are initiated. So that, not only the device is recovered in a re-usable form but also the thief is caught easily. The work proposed in this paper has been compared with Where’s My Droid app and AndroidLost Free. The outcome of the comparison shows the novelty of our approach in terms of automatic theft detection, device tracking (including indoor location detection) and data protection.
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Roy, S., Shah, A.K., Bhattacharya, U. (2016). Touch and Track: An Anti-theft and Data Protection Technique for Smartphones. In: Mueller, P., Thampi, S., Alam Bhuiyan, M., Ko, R., Doss, R., Alcaraz Calero, J. (eds) Security in Computing and Communications. SSCC 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 625. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2738-3_30
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