An Awareness Study On Application Permits Of Smartphones

Nowadays, mobile communication technology is at the center of our life. Today, smartphones have become an indispensable part of both business and daily life. Smartphones that can reach the Internet without space and time constraints have begun to change user habits. Individuals actively use the applications that they like and appreciate, and keep them in their devices. Even they do not remove applications that they use little or no longer use. This is important in terms of the need and commitment to mobile applications. While downloading the programs they want to use on their mobile devices, the applications they download are asking for special permissions. Some of these permissions are required for the operation of the application, while others are dangerous (violating private secrecy) permissions. The permissions each application wants are different. Many permissions such as calendar, camera, contacts, location information, incoming calls to the phone, microphone, access to the messages and storage settings are requested as permission. Applications do not work when these permissions are not granted. In this study, awareness and behavioral practices of individuals will be investigated. The aim of the work is to determine whether individuals have given these permits to programs they have installed, and whether they are aware of the dangers of those permits. Taking into account the ease of access in this context, students from Kocaeli University Faculty of Communication have been chosen as the sample. The data will be collected by the survey technique from the students included in the survey. The survey technique will be applied to 246 people with 95% confidence level and 6% error margin