Monday, 11 July 2016

Now a smartphone app to manage your privacy preferences

The privacy assistant app can learn the user's preferences and quickly recommend the most appropriate settings, such as with which app to share the user's location, or contact list.



In the field test, people accepted almost 80 per cent of the recommendations made by the privacy assistant and indicated they were more comfortable with their privacy settings than without it.

Researchers are developing a personalised privacy assistant app that can simplify the task of setting permissions for your smartphone applications.

That is a job that requires well over a hundred decisions, an unmanageable number for the typical user, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in the US said. The privacy assistant can learn the user’s preferences and quickly recommend the most appropriate settings, such as with which app to share the user’s location, or contact list.

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