A "nutrition label" for privacy

Kelley, Patrick Gage; Bresee, Joanna; Cranor, Lorrie Faith; Reeder, Robert W.

doi:10.1145/1572532.1572538

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“…Research in privacy policies, financial privacy notices, and access control have all similarly shown that privacy-related concepts and terms are often not well understood by users expected to make privacy decisions [13,15,22]. No work we are currently aware of has proposed and tested alternative permissions displays, or other ways to help users select applications in Google Play, or other application markets, as we do here.…”

Section: Android Permissions and Privacy Researchmentioning

confidence: 90%

Privacy as part of the app decision-making process

Kelley

Cranor

Sadeh

2013

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Smartphones have unprecedented access to sensitive personal information. While users report having privacy concerns, they may not actively consider privacy while downloading apps from smartphone application marketplaces. Currently, Android users have only the Android permissions display, which appears after they have selected an app to download, to help them understand how applications access their information. We investigate how permissions and privacy could play a more active role in app-selection decisions. We designed a short "Privacy Facts" display, which we tested in a 20-participant lab study and a 366-participant online experiment. We found that by bringing privacy information to the user when they were making the decision and by presenting it in a clearer fashion, we could assist users in choosing applications that request fewer permissions.

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Section: Android Permissions and Privacy Researchmentioning

confidence: 90%

Privacy as part of the app decision-making process

Kelley

Cranor

Sadeh

2013

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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158

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“…Research in privacy policies, financial privacy notices, and access control have all similarly shown that privacy-related concepts and terms are often not well understood by users expected to make privacy decisions [9,10,14]. Our earlier work specifically investigated how the information display of privacy policies could influence understanding, focusing on standardized formats, terms, and definitions.…”

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A Conundrum of Permissions: Installing Applications on an Android Smartphone

Kelley

Consolvo

Cranor

et al. 2012

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Each time a user installs an application on their Android phone they are presented with a full screen of information describing what access they will be granting that application. This information is intended to help them make two choices: whether or not they trust that the application will not damage the security of their device and whether or not they are willing to share their information with the application, developer, and partners in question. We performed a series of semi-structured interviews in two cities to determine whether people read and understand these permissions screens, and to better understand how people perceive the implications of these decisions. We find that the permissions displays are generally viewed and read, but not understood by Android users. Alarmingly, we find that people are unaware of the security risks associated with mobile apps and believe that app marketplaces test and reject applications. In sum, users are not currently well prepared to make informed privacy and security decisions around installing applications.

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“…The report is based on the Privacy Nutrition Label concept presented in [18], which is an approach aimed at improving the visual presentation of privacy policies to end users. The report is constructed by combining symbols and color codes to illustrate how the user's personal data will be treated.…”

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User Agents for Matching Privacy Policies with User Preferences

Bernsmed¹,

Nyre²,

Jaatun³

2012

IJCTE

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Abstract-Privacy policies are commonly used by service providers to state how personal data obtained from users will be handled. However, the complexity and sheer length of such policies make them incomprehensible to the common web user. This paper surveys user agents that automatically fetch and compare privacy policies with privacy preferences, in order to help the end-user understand the implications of personal data disclosure. We discuss why previous efforts have experienced only moderate success, identify the main areas of improvement and point out directions for future work.

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A "nutrition label" for privacy

Cited by 318 publications

References 8 publications

Privacy as part of the app decision-making process

Privacy as part of the app decision-making process

A Conundrum of Permissions: Installing Applications on an Android Smartphone

User Agents for Matching Privacy Policies with User Preferences

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