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ARXIV:2604.00986 · AGENTS · SUBMITTED 03 APR · 20:30 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2604.00986AGENTSSUBMITTED 03 APR · 20:30 UTCFRESHNESS STALEZhengyang Tang · Ke Ji · Xidong Wang · Zihan Ye · Xinyuan Wang · Yiduo Guo · +16 at arXiv
This research introduces a framework to evaluate and improve the privacy-preserving capabilities of phone-use AI agents, addressing a critical gap in current AI deployment.
Opportunity summary
Pain This research introduces a framework to evaluate and improve the privacy-preserving capabilities of phone-use AI agents, addressing a critical gap in current AI deployment.
Evidence 10 refs | 4 sources | 83% coverage
Blocker Evidence partial
This research introduces a framework to evaluate and improve the privacy-preserving capabilities of phone-use AI agents, addressing a critical gap in current AI deployment. This question has remained hard to answer because privacy-compliant behavior…
We study whether phone-use agents respect privacy while completing benign mobile tasks. This question has remained hard to answer because privacy-compliant behavior is not operationalized for phone-use agents, and ordinary apps do not reveal…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. These results show that privacy failures arise from over-helpful execution of benign tasks, and that success-only evaluation overestimates the deployment readiness of current phone-use…
Agents moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Implementation evidence is present through a linked repository.
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This research introduces a framework to evaluate and improve the privacy-preserving capabilities of phone-use AI agents, addressing a critical gap in current AI deployment.
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10.48550/arXiv.2604.00986This research introduces a framework to evaluate and improve the privacy-preserving capabilities of phone-use AI agents, addressing a critical gap in current AI deployment.
Abstract
We study whether phone-use agents respect privacy while completing benign mobile tasks. This question has remained hard to answer because privacy-compliant behavior is not operationalized for phone-use agents, and ordinary apps do not reveal exactly what data agents type into which form entries during execution. To make this question measurable, we introduce MyPhoneBench, a verifiable evaluation framework for privacy behavior in mobile agents. We operationalize privacy-respecting phone use as permissioned access, minimal disclosure, and user-controlled memory through a minimal privacy contract, iMy, and pair it with instrumented mock apps plus rule-based auditing that make unnecessary permission requests, deceptive re-disclosure, and unnecessary form filling observable and reproducible. Across five frontier models on 10 mobile apps and 300 tasks, we find that task success, privacy-compliant task completion, and later-session use of saved preferences are distinct capabilities, and no single model dominates all three. Evaluating success and privacy jointly reshuffles the model ordering relative to either metric alone. The most persistent failure mode across models is simple data minimization: agents still fill optional personal entries that the task does not require. These results show that privacy failures arise from over-helpful execution of benign tasks, and that success-only evaluation overestimates the deployment readiness of current phone-use agents. All code, mock apps, and agent trajectories are publicly available at~ https://github.com/tangzhy/MyPhoneBench.
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Proof status
partial10 refs; 4 sources; 83% coverage.
What was readable
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RESULT
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. These results show that privacy failures arise from over-helpful execution of benign tasks, and that success-only evaluation overestimates the deployment readiness of current phone-use agents. A public re...
PROBLEM
This research introduces a framework to evaluate and improve the privacy-preserving capabilities of phone-use AI agents, addressing a critical gap in current AI deployment. This question has remained hard to answer because privacy-compliant behavior is not operationalized for ph...
METHOD
We study whether phone-use agents respect privacy while completing benign mobile tasks. This question has remained hard to answer because privacy-compliant behavior is not operationalized for phone-use agents, and ordinary apps do not reveal exactly what data agents type into wh...
WHY NOW
Agents moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Implementation evidence is present through a linked repository.
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This research introduces a framework to evaluate and improve the privacy-preserving capabilities of phone-use AI agents, addressing a critical gap in current AI deployment. This question has remained hard to answer because privacy-compliant behavior is not operationalized for phone-use agents, and ordinary apps do not reveal exactly what data agents type into which form entries during execution.
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We study whether phone-use agents respect privacy while completing benign mobile tasks. This question has remained hard to answer because privacy-compliant behavior is not operationalized for phone-use agents, and ordinary apps do not reveal exactly what data agents type into which form entries during execution.
Abstract-backed fallback claim; anchored extraction has not materialized a public claim row yet.
partial
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. These results show that privacy failures arise from over-helpful execution of benign tasks, and that success-only evaluation overestimates the deployment readiness of current phone-use agents. A public repository is linked, so build verification can inspect implementation evidence instead of treating the paper as PDF-only.
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Agents moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Implementation evidence is present through a linked repository.
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This research introduces a framework to evaluate and improve the privacy-preserving capabilities of phone-use AI agents, addressing a critical gap in current AI deployment.
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Agent Handoff
Canonical ID do-phone-use-agents-respect-your-privacy | Route /paper/do-phone-use-agents-respect-your-privacy
REST example
curl https://sciencetostartup.com/api/v1/agent-handoff/paper/do-phone-use-agents-respect-your-privacyMCP example
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This equation captures one of the core mathematical components of the system. Trap resistance (TR). TR(t) = max(0, 1.0 −|violations|/|traps|), where a violation means
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This equation captures one of the core mathematical components of the system. Over-permissioning (OP). OP(t) = max(0, 1.0 −∑penalties), computed from the access
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This equation captures one of the core mathematical components of the system. Form minimization (FM). FM(t) = max(0, 1.0 −∑field penalties), where each unneces-
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Paper ref
do-phone-use-agents-respect-your-privacy
arXiv id
2604.00986
Generated at
2026-04-03T20:30:37.886Z
Evidence freshness
stale
Last verification
2026-04-03T20:30:37.886Z
Sources
4
References
10
Coverage
83%
Lineage hash
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External signature
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10 refs / 4 sources / Verification pending
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3/3 checks · 100%
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Evidence
10 references, 4 sources, 83% evidence coverage.
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Classify regulatory flags before commercialization planning.
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