General area or approximate location? How people understand location permissions

Huiqing Fu; Janne Lindqvist

doi:10.1145/2665943.2665957

General area or approximate location? How people understand location permissions

Huiqing Fu^*, Janne Lindqvist

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Rutgers the State University, New Jersey, USA

Tutkimustuotos: Artikkeli kirjassa/konferenssijulkaisussa › Conference article in proceedings › Scientific › vertaisarvioitu

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More than half of American adults use smartphones and about two thirds of them use location-based services. On Android smartphones, these location-based services are implemented by apps. Android phones provide two location-related permissions: "precise" location and "approximate" location. In this paper, we present an online survey of 106 Android users to investigate how people understand location descriptions related to their apps. Our results suggest that most participants considered the "precise" location to mean their exact location and the "approximate" location as a general area. This mental model of the "approximate" location seems to allay people's privacy concerns related to their apps. However, after participants were shown the ground truth of how accurate "approximate" location actually is, twice as many participants no longer thought "approximate" location offered enough protection, compared to before showing the ground truth. Our results indicate that the location permissions might mislead smartphone users about the privacy protections the apps are providing.

Alkuperäiskieli	Englanti
Otsikko	Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
Kustantaja	ACM
Sivut	117-120
Sivumäärä	4
ISBN (elektroninen)	9781450331487
DOI - pysyväislinkit	https://doi.org/10.1145/2665943.2665957
Tila	Julkaistu - 3 marrask. 2014
OKM-julkaisutyyppi	A4 Artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa
Tapahtuma	ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security - Scottsdale, Yhdysvallat Kesto: 3 marrask. 2014 → 7 marrask. 2014 Konferenssinumero: 13

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Nimi	Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
ISSN (painettu)	1543-7221

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Conference	ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
Lyhennettä	ACM CCS
Maa/Alue	Yhdysvallat
Kaupunki	Scottsdale
Ajanjakso	03/11/2014 → 07/11/2014

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Fu, H & Lindqvist, J 2014, General area or approximate location? How people understand location permissions. julkaisussa Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, ACM, Sivut 117-120, ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Scottsdale, Arizona, Yhdysvallat, 03/11/2014. https://doi.org/10.1145/2665943.2665957

General area or approximate location? How people understand location permissions. / Fu, Huiqing; Lindqvist, Janne.
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security. ACM, 2014. s. 117-120 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security).

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