Student survey about how people check permissions before installing applications

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soccerninja

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Hello everyone,

We are students from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and doing a research about the way people care about the permissions asked for while installing applications on Android.

The survey is for a course, and for a totally non-lucrative purpose It will take you less than 3 minutes to fill it.

You can find it here : https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dHdRc0xpTTZxWHVIS05mYnVIVVpOT0E6MQ#gid=0

Thanks a lot to anyone who wants to help us by answering !
 
I think the wordings should change on these apps as they can be too cryptic & misleading. OK they need access to certain things to function for the purpose we downloaded them. But often they speak of allowing the APP to do things when really they should say allow USER to do things. Most of the time this is the case but it still suggests the app might, on one full moon when your sleeping, decide to start WW3 without your knowledge.

Also, this is where Symbian came good: it asked for your permissions after installing apps & you could change specific permissions in Symbian app manager. (Though, sometimes a little annoying that some apps would always ask permission lol )

It's been said before but you need to use your brain, a simple widget does not need to access certain things so no. Also if it looks shady, avoid it. I remember java apps from GetJar could be quite dodgy.
 
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