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Opportunity cost analysis of android smartphones' permissions
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Opportunity cost analysis of android smartphones' permissions
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Sarode
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Swapnil
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1991-
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Swapnil Sarode
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Lindqvist
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Janne Lindqvist
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Zhang
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Yanyong
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Yanyong Zhang
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Wade
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Wade Trappe
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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theses
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2014
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2014-10
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2014
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eng
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This thesis provides the opportunity cost for reading androids permission model. We investigate the opportunity cost for users and an example nation (United States), if people would actually read these permission screens during installation time.While the Federal Trade Commission and reserachers try to protect users’ privacy and to improve their comfort level with mobile applications, users still remain unaware of these changes. Users are given a choice to overview the permissions an app would use and have to make an on the spot decision to accept these and move forward with the installation. In this research we project the time required by an average user if they were to read the permissions and compute the monetary value of that time in different situations. An average user may spend half an hour in overviewing permission screens bearing maximum opportunity cost of $23 and a minimum of $3 based on whether it was read at work or leisure. Other than this, if the users decide to read the details of these permissions as well, they will spend more time and hence bear more cost. Reading permissions with details would require users to spend two and half hours annually with a maximum cost of $106 and minimum of $13. An entire nation (United States) would have to invest a minimum of $174 million and a maximum of $6 billion, in reading permissions.
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Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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1 online resource (viii, 42 p. : ill.)
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M.S.
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Includes bibliographical references
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Android (Electronic resource)--Security measures
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Computer software--Development
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by Swapnil Sarode
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doi:10.7282/T3G73GCQ
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ETD graduate
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Sarode
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Swapnil
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2014-09-23 16:46:26
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Swapnil Sarode
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Rutgers University. Graduate School - New Brunswick
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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