Privacy Perceptions About Health and Non-Health Mobile Apps

Thomas, A, Abdi, N and Bernd, J (2023) Privacy Perceptions About Health and Non-Health Mobile Apps. In: USENIX Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) . (USENIX Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 6th Aug - 8th Aug 2023, Anaheim, CA, USA).

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Abstract

This poster describes Phase 1 of a survey study to examine the relationship between U.S. consumers’ expectations about how different types of apps will handle user data, and their assumptions about how laws and app store rules regulate handling of that data. We compare data practices of health apps with non-health apps. Statistical evaluation of responses from 307 participants found that their views about what laws or store rules say—or should say—about apps’ likely data practices tended to correlate positively with characteristics of those data practices, including their health-relatedness and sensitivity, and may correlate with characteristics of the app. In the planned Phase 2 of the study, we will refine these work

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Divisions:	Computer Science and Mathematics
Publisher:	USENIX Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS)
Date of acceptance:	18 April 2023
Date of first compliant Open Access:	4 September 2025
Date Deposited:	04 Sep 2025 10:42
Last Modified:	04 Sep 2025 10:42
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/27084

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