Compiling Chronology of Massive and Increasing Personal Information Collection by Mobile Applications-DataSet

These data are required or generated by our study. Android SDK files contain android platforms and build-tools. All Info files contain all the PIC assessment results of different versions of apks by our study. API results contain APIs extracted from 125 popular code libraries with their documentations and 1,750 app snapshots. App index files contain results of our mobile app ranking algorithm which is designed to select representative (coverage-bias-avoiding) apps in each specific year. SDKs files contain all the libraries used in our study with their history versions. The other files represent the results of our manual verification of 50 randomly picked records for each type of PI and the results of our survey on PI studied by related researches.