A "nutrition label" for privacy
Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
TaintDroid: an information-flow tracking system for realtime privacy monitoring on smartphones
OSDI'10 Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on Operating systems design and implementation
Privacy revelations for web and mobile apps
HotOS'13 Proceedings of the 13th USENIX conference on Hot topics in operating systems
Short paper: a look at smartphone permission models
Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Security and privacy in smartphones and mobile devices
Android permissions demystified
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
Short paper: enhancing users' comprehension of android permissions
Proceedings of the second ACM workshop on Security and privacy in smartphones and mobile devices
Short paper: enhancing mobile application permissions with runtime feedback and constraints
Proceedings of the second ACM workshop on Security and privacy in smartphones and mobile devices
Privacy as part of the app decision-making process
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Android and iOS users' differences concerning security and privacy
CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Embassies: radically refactoring the web
nsdi'13 Proceedings of the 10th USENIX conference on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web
Proceedings of the Ninth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
"Little brothers watching you": raising awareness of data leaks on smartphones
Proceedings of the Ninth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
Sleeping android: the danger of dormant permissions
Proceedings of the Third ACM workshop on Security and privacy in smartphones & mobile devices
Proceedings of the 12th ACM workshop on Workshop on privacy in the electronic society
Reconciling mobile app privacy and usability on smartphones: could user privacy profiles help?
Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on World wide web
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Each time a user installs an application on their Android phone they are presented with a full screen of information describing what access they will be granting that application. This information is intended to help them make two choices: whether or not they trust that the application will not damage the security of their device and whether or not they are willing to share their information with the application, developer, and partners in question. We performed a series of semi-structured interviews in two cities to determine whether people read and understand these permissions screens, and to better understand how people perceive the implications of these decisions. We find that the permissions displays are generally viewed and read, but not understood by Android users. Alarmingly, we find that people are unaware of the security risks associated with mobile apps and believe that app marketplaces test and reject applications. In sum, users are not currently well prepared to make informed privacy and security decisions around installing applications.