There are 1,041,336 apps in this dataset. In all, 165 permissions allow access to device hardware and 70 allow access to various types of user information.

Below on the left is a selection of 18 popular apps from the Google Play Store. Clicking an app icon will show the list of permissions required by each app, as well as some general information about the app. Clicking “view all permissions” will show the full list of 235 permissions an app in this dataset could request. The data below reflects the permissions of each app as of September 2014 when the data for this report was collected. It is possible that the permissions listed below are different in the current versions of each app.