Kummer, Michael E.; Schulte, Patrick - 2016 - This version: April 2016
We shed light on a money-for-privacy trade-off in the market for smartphone applications ("apps"). Developers offer … their apps cheaper in return for greater access to personal information, and consumers choose between lower prices and more … by their use of privacy-sensitive permissions: (1) cheaper apps use more privacy-sensitive permissions; (2) installation …