US Patent 10032037 Establishing application trust levels using taint propagation as a service

An application of a mobile device may be granted access to sensitive or private information. The mobile device may be configured to monitor the application's use of any sensitive data obtained by the application. The mobile device may include, with the sensitive data, taint propagation data configured to enable the mobile device to detect that application's use of the cloaked sensitive data. As a result of detecting the application use of the sensitive data, trust information corresponding to the applications use of the cloaked sensitive data may be provided a service provider. The service provider may be configured to determine a trust level of the application and perform remedial operations based at least in part on the determined trust level.