Presentation
Mobile Applications vs Privacy
UBT International Conference
Session
Computer Science and Communication Engineering
Description
Today we have billions of smartphone users and millions of mobile applications (apps), the Apple App store boasts close to 2 million of these apps while Google play has more than 2.2 million Apps. Number of mobile apps is increased each day, also usage and downloads of mobile apps has doubled reaching – 197 billion (a forecast) downloads in 2017.
Does mobile application collect data of smartphone user? Where do they have access? Do we, as user, need to have concern regarding our Privacy?
We have analyzed more than 30.000 mobile apps from Google Play and Apple Store, to find out which data they collect?
This paper will give answer which data of user are collected, and scary result regarding privacy!
Keywords:
- Mobile Apps,
- Apple Store,
- Google Store,
- Privacy
Session Chair
Kozeta Sevran
Session Co-Chair
Bertan Karahoda
Proceedings Editor
Edmond Hajrizi
ISBN
978-9951-437-54-7
Location
Durres, Albania
Start Date
27-10-2017 3:00 PM
End Date
27-10-2017 4:30 PM
DOI
10.33107/ubt-ic.2017.100
Disciplines
Citation Information
Mentor Hoxhaj, Tanzer Abazi and Edmond Hajrizi. "Mobile Applications vs Privacy" (2017) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/edmond-hajrizi/9/