Title
A new approach for managing Android permissions: learning users' preferences.
Abstract
Today, permissions management solutions on mobile devices employ Identity Based Access Control (IBAC) models. If this approach was suitable when people had only a few games (like Snake or Tetris) installed on their mobile phones, the current situation is different. A survey from Google in 2013 showed that, on average, french users have installed 32 applications on their Android smartphones. As a result, these users must manage hundreds of permissions to protect their privacy. Scalability of IBAC is a well-known issue and many more advanced access control models have introduced abstractions to cope with this problem. However, such models are more complex to handle by non-technical users. Thus, we present a permission management system for Android devices that (1) learns users’ privacy preferences with a novel learning algorithm, (2) proposes them abstract authorization rules, and (3) provides advanced features to manage these high-level rules. Our learning algorithm is compared to two other well-known approaches to show its efficiency. Finally, we prove this whole approach is more efficient than current permission management system by comparing it to Privacy Guard Manager.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1186/s13635-017-0065-4
EURASIP J. Information Security
Keywords
Field
DocType
Android permission, Access control model, Recommender System
Recommender system,Permission,World Wide Web,Android (operating system),Computer security,Computer science,Mobile device,Access control,Guard (information security),Management system,Scalability
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
2017
2510-523X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Arnaud Oglaza1154.56
Romain Laborde216228.88
Pascale Zarate3224.78
Abdelmalek Benzekri47721.73
francois barrere55514.34