Evaluating Safety Buttons on Mobile Devices

We are releasing one of the datasets from a research project conducted jointly by the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), India and The Bachchao Project (TBP) in 2016-17. This dataset that logs all the different permissions sought by selected “safety applications” available on the Google Play store in India was compiled as a part of the “Evaluating Safety Buttons on Mobile Devices” project in November 2016. A preliminary report on the findings was released at RightsCon in Brussels in 2017: https://github.com/cis-india/website/raw/master/docs/CIS-TBP_SafetyButtonsMobileDevices_Preview_201703.pdf [PDF] Blog post corresponding to the release of the report: https://cis-india.org/raw/evaluating-safety-buttons-on-mobile-devices-preview. The dataset has been released under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. All uses of the accompanying data or parts thereof must contain the following attribution: “Data provided by Rohini Lakshané and Chinmayi S K (2018)”. To request a waiver, email rohini [at] cis-india [dot] org. Data are provided AS-IS, without warranty as to accuracy or completeness. This dataset was first uploaded on the website of the The Bachchao Project on June 18, 2018: http://thebachchaoproject.org/evaluating-safety-buttons-on-mobile-devices