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http://hdl.handle.net/10993/51593
An (Un)Necessary Evil - Users’ (Un)Certainty about Smartphone App Permissions and Implications for Privacy Engineering
English
Bongard, Kerstin mailto [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (DBCS) >]
Sterckx, Jean-Louis mailto [University of Luxembourg > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences]
Rossi, Arianna mailto [University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > IRiSC >]
Distler, Verena mailto [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (DBCS) >]
Rivas, Salvador mailto [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > LUCET >]
Koenig, Vincent mailto [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (DBCS) >]
2022
2022 7th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroSPW)
IEEE
Yes
No
International
2022 International Workshop on Privacy Engineering – IWPE'22 CO-LOCATED WITH 7TH IEEE EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM ON SECURITY AND PRIVACY
6 June 2022
IEEE EuroS&P
Genoa
Italy
[en] human computer interaction ; user interface design ; security evaluation
[en] App permission requests are a control mechanism meant to help users oversee and safeguard access to data and resources on their smartphones. To decide whether to accept or deny such requests and make this consent valid, users need to understand the underlying reasons and judge
the relevance of disclosing data in line with their own use of an app. This study investigates people’s certainty about app permission requests via an online survey with 400 representative participants of the UK population. The results demonstrate that users are uncertain about the necessity of granting app permissions for about half of the tested permission requests. This implies substantial privacy risks, which are discussed in the paper, resulting in a call for user-protecting interventions by privacy engineers.
Fonds National de la Recherche - FnR
Researchers ; Professionals
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/51593
© 2022, Kerstin Bongard-Blanchy. Under license to IEEE.
DOI 10.1109/EuroS&PW55150.2022.00023
FnR ; FNR14717072 > Gabriele Lenzini > DECEPTICON > Deceptive Patterns Online > 01/06/2021 > 31/05/2024 > 2020

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