Research on Android Application Privacy Security

Abstract

Abstract: With the advent of the era of mobile Internet, mobile phone has become the longest used intelligent device in our daily life. Basically, our life is inseparable from mobile phone. Thousands of mobile applications on mobile phones provide users with a full range of social, shopping, games, work and entertainment enriching our lives, but also increasing the risk of privacy leakage. Is it reasonable for a mobile application to use and collect certain privacy information of users? For this problem, in recent years, many researchers have studied the security of user privacy rights of mobile applications. This paper first describes the privacy security mechanism and existing problems of Android mobile applications, and then summarizes and sorts out the solutions to the privacy security problems of Android mobile applications. Then introduces the main research methods and technical means of various solutions in detail. Finally, we prospect the future research direction of privacy security of Android mobile applications.

Key words: Android, application, privacy, security inspection, mobile

摘要： 随着移动互联时代的到来，手机已经成为我们日常生活中使用时间最长的一个智能设备，基本上我们的生活完全离不开手机。手机上成千上万的移动应用程序给用户提供了社交、购物、游戏、工作、娱乐全方位的体验，丰富了我们的生活，但也增加了用户隐私泄露的危险。一个移动应用程序使用和收集用户的某个隐私信息到底是合理还是不合理？对于这个问题有很多的研究人员对移动应用程序的用户隐私权限安全进行了研究。本文首先对Android系统的隐私权限机制和存在的问题进行了阐述，然后归纳和梳理了现在Android应用程序隐私权限安全检测的解决方案，并介绍了各解决方案的主要研究思路和技术手段。最后，展望了Android应用程序隐私权限安全的未来研究方向。

关键词: 安卓, 应用程序, 用户隐私, 安全检测, 手机

钟越付迪阳. Android应用程序隐私权限安全研究[J]. 信息安全研究, 2021, 7(3): 287-292.

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