A conundrum of permissions: Installing applications on an android smartphone

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7398 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 68-79

  Kelley, Patrick Gage ^a   Consolvo, Sunny ^c   Cranor, Lorrie Faith ^a   Jung, Jaeyeon ^b   Sadeh, Norman ^a   Wetherall, David ^c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

android; applications; information design; permissions; privacy; security; smartphone

Indexed keywords

ANDROID (OPERATING SYSTEM); DATA PRIVACY; MOBILE SECURITY;

ANDROID; ANDROID SMARTPHONE; APPLICATION DEVELOPERS; INFORMATION DESIGN; PERMISSION; PRIVACY; SECURITY; SECURITY RISKS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS; SMART PHONES;

SMARTPHONES;

EID: 84868375110     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-34638-5_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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