Recent studies have shown that privacy on mobile devices is not properly ensured. Due to a heavy increase of smartphones in the market, in addition to a variety of third-party applications, a demand for improved solutions concerning privacy has arisen. Our objective is to extend users' ability to control applications' access to resources at run-time. We investigate whether such a solution is adequate or not, in order to properly maintain privacy. We propose a design that provides a higher degree of control by allowing users to set preferences that determines what personal information to share. Previous efforts only give users a binary choice on whether to fake personal information or not. We offer a more flexible solution that allows users to set preferences with a higher degree of granularity. We implement selected parts from our design, in order to evaluate whether this solution serves as a utility or not. Further evaluation is a necessity in order to fully accept or reject the idea. However, our initial results are promising.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:ntnu-13835 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | Bø, Solvår, Pedersen, Stian Rene |
| Publisher | Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for telematikk, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for telematikk, Institutt for telematikk |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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