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. 2021 Mar 1;21(5):1667. doi: 10.3390/s21051667
Algorithm 1: Calculate risk of each app (permission, number of permissions, user data size, total size)
Input: Permission Level (PL), Number of permission (NP), User Data Size (WUD), Total Size (TSIZE)
Output: Low Risk, Medium Risk, High Risk, Extremely High Risk
1.  RAPP=(PLNP) (WUDTSIZE)
2. If RAPP ≤ 0.25
3. Return Low Risk
4. Else if 0.251 ≤ RAPP ≥ 0.5
5. Return Medium Risk
6. Else if 0.51 ≤ RAPP ≥ 0.75
7. Return High Risk
8. Else if 0.751 ≤ RAPP ≥ 1.0
Return Extremely High Risk