ClearCommPrivacy

Abstract

Informing users of Android apps' privacy behavior is crucial to maintain transparency. In the past, approaches have been developed to communicate app privacy behavior based on frameworks that require extensive APIs, new permission models, entirely new Operating Systems (OS), and/or third-party plugins/tools to assist developers. In this work, we present ClearCommPrivacy, a User Interface (UI) template for Android apps to convey privacy/permission information in an app by a developer familiar with an app's privacy behavior using a standardized code template and two XML files. We present the design of ClearCommPrivacy and some basic evaluation results.