PUPDroid - Personalized user privacy mechanism for android

The technological progress of mobile devices, the low cost of this device and the facility of use are increasing the usability of mobile devices. Since these devices provide access to network, its owner has access to almost limitless amount of data and can store more information than in his personal computer (like phone call record, list of contact and calendar). A point of attention is that these devices have some resources that, if misused, can be dangerous to the owner. The major number of existing mobile devices Operational System does not allow the owner to manage how the installed application installed is using hardware device and personal information. In this paper we will present a mechanism to transfer the control of access permission to the owner´s device with personalized roles. The idea behind the mechanism is to provide to the device owner a way to control the access permission by installed applications providing flexibility to personalize the application privacy. Since the platform does not allow the user to change the application permission after it is installed, Android was chosen to develop the proof of concept of the mechanism because it is an open source mobile operational system. The results show that the mechanism will allow Android user to improve his device privacy and control how it is used since the roles of access for each application can be personalized. The mechanism will also provide a way for enterprises to build an application to manage the employee´s device privacy.