Android Users Privacy Awareness Survey

Alani, Mohammed M.

doi:10.3991/ijim.v11i3.6605

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“…Privacy and secrecy issues also have been highlighted in mobile apps/systems in education and business domains [23], [24]. In 2017 a survey on awareness of privacy has been conducted among Android users, which revealed that the level of understanding is still low [25] even though there is a raising need for privacy.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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Anonymity Feature in Android Mobile Apps for Interest Groups

Yi¹,

Emran²,

Harum³

2021

IJACSA

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Mobile apps that provide platforms for interestoriented communities (or interest groups) allow people with common interests to gather virtually in sharing their shared passion and ideas. While the participation of such apps is voluntary, some people feel uncomfortable revealing their real identities due to privacy and safety concerns. Thus, some mobile apps provide an anonymity feature that allows people to join the group anonymously. Nevertheless, little is known on how the anonymity feature relates to the people who prefer to join interest groups. Thus in this paper, we hypothesize that mobile apps users that highly value interest groups will also highly appreciate the anonymity feature provided in the interest groups. In particular, we explored the market segment of mobile Android apps with anonymity features within selected interest groups. A pilot study was conducted where 34 Android apps users, primarily Malaysian, filled up the questionnaires designed to investigate the anonymity feature in the apps. The results of the pilot study show that most Android apps nowadays offer their users to remain anonymous. The findings show that most users who give a high score on the importance of interest-based groups also provide a high score on the importance of the anonymity feature offered by the mobile apps providers.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Anonymity Feature in Android Mobile Apps for Interest Groups

Yi¹,

Emran²,

Harum³

2021

IJACSA

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“…This application has successfully passed the standard screening process to ensure the security and privacy of the users through Google Play Protect [26]. Unlike most of the applications downloaded from the play store, "SuperWomen" does not contain any advertisement which reduces user concerns regarding adware that can threaten their privacy and mobile system security [27].…”

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“SuperWomen”: A Smart Mobile Application for Social Security focusing Threats and Supports for Women

Monalisa

Himi

Ferdous

et al. 2021

Int. J. Interact. Mob. Technol.

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<p>Though in this modern society men and women are said to be given equal rights, having no gender discrimination, women are still considered weak and endlessly facing rape, domestic violence, eve-teasing, workplace violence, physical assault, cyberbullying even being killed. In South Asian countries, like Bangladesh, India, Pakistan there are thousands of cases regarding violence against women. The use of ICT including smartphone applications can be an aid in building awareness and support against these issues. Although several applications were developed worldwide, but not out there online for sensible use. In this paper, we aspire to present women with a technical solution by providing them a mobile application “SuperWomen” that is centered on urban and rural women of Asian countries and also available online. Not only women, but its voice-controlled siren feature is also a great help for physically challenged individuals, that works even on the lock screen. Survey feedback of this application shows that it takes care of each pre-incidental and post-incidental condition like an expert. This application provides user-friendly navigation for women with less technical knowledge. Its key features are secret button emergency SMS alert, location sharing with any social media, lawyer chatbot, pictorial self-defense techniques, etc. The effectiveness of this application has been justified through extensive literature review, application benchmark, performance evaluation, user survey, deployment in Google Play Store. We believe that this will bring a holistic resolution to safeguard suppressed women worldwide.<strong> </strong></p>

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“…Alani [11] noted that android smartphone privacy awareness concern grow with spread in users" perspective. A huge number of apps are downloaded daily by the users, but it is really difficult to differentiate between good terms of service security apps and bad terms of service security apps.…”

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Security and Privacy Awareness: A Survey for Smartphone User

Ali¹,

Rahman²,

Jahan³

2019

IJACSA

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Smartphone becomes one of the most popular devices in last few years due to the integration of powerful technologies in it. Now-a-days a smartphone can provide different services as like as a computer provides. Smartphone holds our important personal information such as photos and videos, SMS, email, contact list, social media accounts etc. Therefore, the number of security and privacy related threats are also increasing relatively. Our research aims at evaluating how much the smartphone users are aware about their security and privacy. In this study, firstly we have taken a survey for smartphone users to access the level of smartphone security awareness displayed by the public. We also determine whether a general level of security complacency exists among smartphone users and measure the awareness of android users regarding their privacy. From survey result we have found that, most of the people are not aware about their smartphone security and privacy. Secondly, based on survey results, we have shown a method to measure the level of awareness (LOA) for the smartphone users. By using this method, a user can easily measure his/her smartphone security and privacy related level of awareness.

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Android Users Privacy Awareness Survey

Cited by 27 publications

References 8 publications

Anonymity Feature in Android Mobile Apps for Interest Groups

Anonymity Feature in Android Mobile Apps for Interest Groups

“SuperWomen”: A Smart Mobile Application for Social Security focusing Threats and Supports for Women

Security and Privacy Awareness: A Survey for Smartphone User

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