Your Privacy is not so Private: Unveiling Android Apps Privacy Framework from the Dark

Abstract

As the adoption of smartphones continues to surge all over the world, mobile apps have become a tool of greater significance, offering free access to everything ranging from social networking sites and emails to online banking transactions and ticket reservations. In any case, even free applications can include potential tradeoffs with regard to allowing access to private information of their users. This pattern has brought about expanding worries over the malicious nature of these apps and the security threats that these apps force upon its users. In this paper, we analyze the mobile apps privacy framework, its loopholes and survey the proposed tools and frameworks which primarily focuses on the effect of sensitive data leakage and privacy risks involved with it.