Cellphone and smartphone users have a love-hate relationship with mobile apps. While they love the functionality and enhanced user experience they bring to the table, clearly many hate the perceived privacy intrusions, suggests a newly released report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. More than half — 54 percent — of app users surveyed decided against installing a cellphone app when they discovered how much personal information they would need to share in order to use it.
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Mobile Phone Privacy: Buck Stops With the User
Posted by: Erika Morphy September 6, 2012 09:32 AMCellphone and smartphone users have a love-hate relationship with mobile apps. While they love the functionality and enhanced user experience they bring to the table, clearly many hate the perceived privacy intrusions, suggests a newly released report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. More than half — 54 percent — of app users surveyed decided against installing a cellphone app when they discovered how much personal information they would need to share in order to use it.