A Conundrum of Permissions: Installing Applications on an Android Smartphone

By Patrick Gage Kelley, Sunny Consolvo, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Jaeyeon Jung, Norman M. Sadeh, David Wetherall. Financial Cryptography Workshops, 2012

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Subfields: Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science, Signal Processing

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Expectation and purpose: understanding users' mental models of mobile app privacy through crowdsourcing (2012, background): “Sadeh et al. also studied the complexity of people’s location sharing privacy preferences[5, 32].”
Modeling Users' Mobile App Privacy Preferences: Restoring Usability in a Sea of Permission Settings (2014, background): “Several studies have examined usability issues related to the permission interface displayed to users as they download Android apps [5-7].”
SoK: Privacy on Mobile Devices – It’s Complicated (2016, background): “Previous research has shown that users often did not understand the installtime permissions dialogs and were often surprised by the data that these over-permissioned apps could access [29, 91, 92].”
I've got 99 problems, but vibration ain't one: a survey of smartphone users' concerns (2012, background): “Studies have shown that the permission warnings confuse users [9, 14].”
: Privacy on Mobile Devices – It ’ s Complicated (2016, background): “Previous research has shown that users often did not understand the installtime permissions dialogs and were often surprised by the data that these over-permissioned apps could access [29, 91, 92].”
Privacy as part of the app decision-making process (2013, background): “Previous research suggests that users are likely to ignore the permissions display because it appears after they have decided to download a particular app [4, 12].”
Leakiness and creepiness in app space: perceptions of privacy and mobile app use (2014, result): “When asked why they had ignored the EULA two explanations dominated similar to those described in [9,18,25].”