2019•Unpublished venueOpen access

Reducing Permission Requests in Mobile Apps

Sai Teja Peddinti, Igor Bilogrevic, Nina Taft, Martin Pelikán, Úlfar Erlingsson, Pauline Anthonysamy, Giles Hogben

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Users of mobile apps sometimes express discomfort or concerns with what they see as unnecessary or intrusive permission requests by certain apps. However encouraging mobile app developers to request fewer permissions is challenging because there are many reasons why permissions are requested; furthermore, prior work [25] has shown it is hard to disambiguate the purpose of a particular permission with high certainty.

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Key concepts: Permission, Computer science, Internet privacy, Mobile apps, Certainty, Mobile device, World Wide Web, Computer security