Investigating university student desires and use of smartphone privacy settings

Smartphones provide an abundance of settings to help users control how their data is used. In this paper, we explore what the expressed privacy desires are for college-age smartphone users and whether these are achieved by their settings. To accomplish this, we use a survey and in-person interviews to learn how people feel about their data being shared and how they make decisions about their settings. We find that, in general, people are very concerned with microphone and photo data and less concerned with location data. However, user actions indicate a higher concern with location data than microphones or photo data.