PLANT: Permission Leakage AvoidaNce Through Filteration

The instantaneous growth of mobile apps in mobile markets elevating the concerns on the protection of user's sensitive data in Smartphone's. The Majority of apps in all mobile markets are gathering the data which is insignificant to the app functionality. The mobile app collects the data of the user either users’ sensitive data or device data by using orthodox permission control policy. This Permission policy in apps takes acceptance of user for installing an app and user has only one option to accept all permissions to continue the installation of app. In this work we proposed a framework PLANT which is Permission Leakage AvoidaNce Through Filteration for identifying data leakage done by mobile apps by using permissions . Finally framework gives the knowledge to the user to deny if there are any irrelevant permissions required by the app based on its functionality