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Studying the effectiveness of android application permissions requests

Benton, Kevin, Camp, L. Jean, Garg, Vaibhav·2013·2013 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops)
DOI 10.1109/percomw.2013.6529497
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Abstract

Popular platforms including Android and Facebook have adopted a permissions-based model. Under this model applications (apps) are required to declare specific access to user information required for functionality. We conducted two user studies on Amazon's Mechanical Turk to test the efficacy of these permissions requests on the Android platform. We found permissions were ineffective, even with the addition of an additional text warning. Conversely, we found that an app's download count had a strong effect on app installations. In order to determine if it was a failure of our text-based warning, we ran a second experiment with a previously proven visual indicator.

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Authors
Benton, K., Camp, L. J., & Garg, V.
Affiliations
Indiana University Bloomington (US)
ORCID
Venue
2013 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2013-03
Pages
291-296
DOI
10.1109/percomw.2013.6529497
OpenAlex
W1972642098
Cited by
49
References
1
Citations by year
2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 1
FWCI
21.83
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops) (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Science Foundation
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › User Authentication and Security Systems
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Usability and User Interface Design
Keywords
permission requests, user privacy awareness, user privacy behavior, mobile privacy

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Benton, K., Camp, L. J., & Garg, V. (2013). Studying the effectiveness of android application permissions requests. 2013 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops). https://doi.org/10.1109/percomw.2013.6529497

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