Android Permission Manager, Visual Cues, and their Effect on Privacy Awareness and Privacy Literacy

Schmitt, Vera; Poikela, Maija; Möller, Sebastian

doi:10.1145/3538969.3543790

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“…For the following analysis, different privacy nudges have been designed to examine their influence on privacy awareness and the monetary assessment of personal data. Hereby, the procedure of analyzing permission requests, the permission manifest, and the privacy policy of applications is followed which has been introduced by [3], [43], [6], [25].…”

Section: Analysis Design and Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The examination of legal compliance is organized based on the proposed framework introduced in [6], [43], [44], specifically designed to evaluate the GDPR conformity of widely used and renowned applications. The analysis of technical and legal compliance is divided into three primary phases.…”

Section: Analysis Design and Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to Shih et al [50], the purpose for data access was the main factor affecting the users' choices, e.g., if the purpose is vaguely formulated, participants became privacyaware and were less willing to disclose information. The traffic light metaphor thus serves as a useful tool for users to efficiently oversee valid and invalid permission requests in compliance with GDPR [51]. To investigate the impact of information about permission requests and access to sensitive data on privacy awareness, the aforementioned procedure is applied to track permission requests from the popular Google Maps app.…”

Section: A Nudge Design and Monetary Valuationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Privacy-Aware Decision Making: The Effect of Privacy Nudges on Privacy Awareness and the Monetary Assessment of Personal Information

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Moller

2024

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Nowadays, smartphones are equipped with various sensors collecting a huge amount of sensitive personal information about their users. However, for smartphone users, it remains hidden, and sensitive information is accessed by used applications and data requesters. Moreover, governmental institutions have no means to verify if applications requesting sensitive information are compliant with the General Data Protection Directive (GDPR), as it is infeasible to check the technical details and data requested by applications that are on the market. Thus, this research aims to shed light on the compliance analysis of applications with the GDPR. Therefore, a multidimensional analysis is applied to analyzing the permission requests of applications and empirically test if the information provided about potentially dangerous permissions influences the privacy awareness and their willingness to pay or sell personal data of users. The use case of Google Maps has been chosen to examine privacy awareness and the monetary assessment of data in a concrete scenario. The information about the multidimensional analysis of the permission requests of Google Maps and the privacy consent form is used to design privacy nudges to inform users about potentially harmful permission requests that are not in line with the GDPR. The privacy nudges are evaluated in two crowdsourcing experiments with overall 426 participants, showing that information about harmful data collection practices increases privacy awareness and also the willingness to pay for the protection of personal data.

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