  The age of technology has created a huge market for smartphones and Apps
usage and a new generation has been created based on knowledge sharing. Now
knowledge has been made easily accessible by Apps but; are users even aware of
the permissions that these Apps require and the privacy issues involved? The
study was conducted on the basis of how users make use of Apps. It was
conducted through the assessment of permissions required by various Apps
through carefully selected third-party Apps and the devices settings and also a
review of existing literature that has been conducted in fields within Apps and
privacy. It will be unearthed that a many different but exhaustive lists of
permission are sought by each App installed and the device it is installed on
can quite give the user the information. Also not all permissions sought were
found to be risky but some just created a path or a vulnerable point for other
malicious programs to take advantage of.
