The requirements for the data protection of smartphone users : Ensuring a safe and secure usage environment

Abstract

The number of smartphone users is drastically increasing. At the same time, users are assailed with anxiety by using smartphones. While users are unable to recognise what kind of information is being collected and used through their use of smartphones, non-transparent information-handling is being conducted. The unlawful collection of stored, personal information by companies, individuals and entities which is recorded automatically inside a smartphone, is now leading to the unauthorised, third-party transmission of personal data and this is a result of the deliberate misuse of mal-ware applications. Accordingly, this paper introduces the official, overall guide and the contained guidelines, with solutions to the above-mentioned problems with reference to the current Personal Information Protection Law, from the point of view of both sides of the most recent security and privacy issue research and its link to safe and secure smartphone usage.