Reducing Permission Requests in Mobile Apps
Sai Teja Peddinti, Igor Bilogrevic, Nina Taft, Martin Pelikán, Úlfar Erlingsson, Pauline Anthonysamy, Giles Hogben · 2019
Users of mobile apps sometimes express discomfort or concerns with what they see as unnecessary or intrusive permission requests by certain apps. However encouraging mobile app developers to request fewer permissions is challenging because there are many reasons why permissions are requested; furthermore, prior work [25] has shown it is hard to disambiguate the purpose of a particular permission with high certainty.