TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring the effect of permission notice on users' initial trust to an application store
T2 - 13th IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2015
AU - Gu, Jie
AU - Xu, Heng
AU - Hu, An'An
AU - Huang, Lihua
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China Oversea Cooperative Study Funds: 71229101 and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation: 2014M551333. Corresponding author: An'an Hu.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/7/23
Y1 - 2015/7/23
N2 - Privacy invasion via mobile applications is a big issue in the mobile age. This study focuses on China's Android market where a few application stores are available to adopt applications. Recognizing that these stores vary in presenting permission notice, this study examines the effect of two features of a permission notice, i.e., permission sensitivity and permission explanation, on Android users' privacy-related perceptions. Results of our scenario-based study suggest that while the disclosure of highly sensitive permissions increases users' privacy concerns to an application, it also boosts users' initial trust to an unfamiliar application store. Moreover, users' trust to the application store is a necessary condition for the efficiency of permission explanation to reduce users' privacy concerns. In addition to enhancing our theoretical understanding of the role of initial trust in Chinese Android users' elaboration of permission notice, these findings have important implications for both China's application stores and application developers.
AB - Privacy invasion via mobile applications is a big issue in the mobile age. This study focuses on China's Android market where a few application stores are available to adopt applications. Recognizing that these stores vary in presenting permission notice, this study examines the effect of two features of a permission notice, i.e., permission sensitivity and permission explanation, on Android users' privacy-related perceptions. Results of our scenario-based study suggest that while the disclosure of highly sensitive permissions increases users' privacy concerns to an application, it also boosts users' initial trust to an unfamiliar application store. Moreover, users' trust to the application store is a necessary condition for the efficiency of permission explanation to reduce users' privacy concerns. In addition to enhancing our theoretical understanding of the role of initial trust in Chinese Android users' elaboration of permission notice, these findings have important implications for both China's application stores and application developers.
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U2 - 10.1109/ISI.2015.7165941
DO - 10.1109/ISI.2015.7165941
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84963750570
T3 - 2015 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics: Securing the World through an Alignment of Technology, Intelligence, Humans and Organizations, ISI 2015
SP - 67
EP - 72
BT - 2015 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics
A2 - Zhou, Lina
A2 - Wang, G. Alan
A2 - Mao, Wenji
A2 - Kaati, Lisa
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 27 May 2015 through 29 May 2015
ER -