More than a million Android Apps with Two Privacy Scores

DOI

This data set contains meta data about more than a million third-party Android application that were collected from the Google Play store between 2017 and 2019. Two privacy scores were calculated for each application based on: permission requests, broadcast receivers, and user's privacy preferences. The scores also depend on other applications in the app's category. The scores were calculated based on two published formulas. The first fomulas was proposed by Mohsel et al. and published in TrustCom '18, "Countering intrusiveness using new security-centric ranking algorithm built on top of elasticsearch". The second formula was published in SPSM '16 Taylor, and Martinovic, "SecuRank: Starving Permission-Hungry Apps Using Contextual Permission Analysis"s

In addition to the two privacy scores, the meta data for each app is also given. For example, the genre, the description, the number of downloads.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.34894/CW7PAH
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.6571
Metadata Access https://dataverse.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.34894/CW7PAH
Provenance
Creator Mohsen, Fadi ORCID logo
Publisher DataverseNL
Contributor Groningen Digital Competence Center
Publication Year 2021
Rights CC0 Waiver; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact Groningen Digital Competence Center (University of Groningen)
Representation
Resource Type meta data for Third-party Android mobile applications; Dataset
Format application/x-ipynb+json; text/x-python; text/csv
Size 12069; 425; 449655596
Version 1.0
Discipline Other