Android App Permission Analysis Based on Developer’s Privacy Policies, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Amini, Morteza (Supervisor)
Abstract
With the increasing use of mobile smartphones, securing the information and protecting the mobile users’ privacy is one of the important subjects in this context. Android, as one of the most popular operating systems for smartphones, uses strategies to provide system security and user privacy; one of these strategies is permission system. Applications should get permissions from users to access their sensitive data. Most related researches and the android itself, focuses on granting or revoking permissions to the program in a way that it doesn’t misuse the user’s sensitive data, but most of the time, the purpose of accessing data is not obvious and the user doesn’t have enough knowledge...
Cataloging briefAndroid App Permission Analysis Based on Developer’s Privacy Policies, M.Sc. Thesis Sharif University of Technology ; Amini, Morteza (Supervisor)
Abstract
With the increasing use of mobile smartphones, securing the information and protecting the mobile users’ privacy is one of the important subjects in this context. Android, as one of the most popular operating systems for smartphones, uses strategies to provide system security and user privacy; one of these strategies is permission system. Applications should get permissions from users to access their sensitive data. Most related researches and the android itself, focuses on granting or revoking permissions to the program in a way that it doesn’t misuse the user’s sensitive data, but most of the time, the purpose of accessing data is not obvious and the user doesn’t have enough knowledge...
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