Privacy Concerns on Mobile Applications for Google Play Store Market

2019 11th International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering (ELECO) Pub Date : 2019-11-01 DOI:10.23919/eleco47770.2019.8990578

Ala Rabea, Meltem Mutlutürk, B. Metin

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Since the introduction of smartphones and mobile applications, privacy concerns have been rapidly rising. Today, over one billion people use smartphones. Millions of different apps are being used and installed on daily basis. Whether it’s Android, IOS, Windows, or any other mobile operating system, an app might need to request extra permissions to access more data on the user’s phone. In this study, Android apps from Google Play Store are examined. Python scraping code was used to collect details about over 5,000 apps including different parameters such as permissions requested, number of installs, reviews, and several other details. The data was then analyzed using SPSS. The analyses made included descriptives and correlation. The data analysis was fruitful and different hypothesis were supported at high significance. The results showed that number of permissions requested by an app is correlated with several other variables such as number of reviews, number of installs, and review score. Limitations are mentioned in the conclusion.

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关于Google Play商店市场手机应用的隐私问题

自从智能手机和移动应用程序问世以来，人们对隐私的担忧一直在迅速上升。如今，有超过10亿人使用智能手机。每天都有数百万不同的应用程序被使用和安装。无论是Android、IOS、Windows还是任何其他移动操作系统，应用程序都可能需要请求额外的权限才能访问用户手机上的更多数据。在本研究中，我们调查了来自Google Play Store的Android应用。Python抓取代码用于收集超过5000个应用的详细信息，包括不同的参数，如请求的权限、安装数量、评论和其他一些细节。然后用SPSS软件对数据进行分析。所做的分析包括描述性和相关性。数据分析是富有成效的，不同的假设得到了高度显著性的支持。结果显示，应用请求的权限数量与其他几个变量相关，如评论数量、安装数量和评论分数。结论中提到了局限性。

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