Making Veloce Mobility's claim that its rider app only asks for what it needs provable: a quarter with a Play policy strike, an App Store rejection and a data protection authority inquiry over always-on location and phone-state and contacts access merged in from an ad SDK; the eight-layer permission stack from duties, inventory and minimisation through runtime consent, SDKs, store declarations and continuous release gates to evidence; and the defensibility file that cut Android permissions from 41 to 28 and iOS usage strings from 9 to 4, with background location removed and no new store strikes.

CY-EXPERT-047Expert Level · Mobile Security

App Permissions Defensibility — The Permission Stack

An expert-level course that turns 'the app only asks for what it needs' into something a store reviewer or regulator can check. Work the permission stack - eight layers a permission passes from manifest line to evidence: Regulatory & Store Duties on Permissions; Permission Inventory & Justification; Minimisation: Alternatives, Scoping & Degradation; Runtime Requests, Consent & Transparency; SDK & Library Permission Inheritance; Store Declarations vs Actual Behaviour; Continuous Checks: CI, Drift & Release Gates; and Evidence Packs & Regulator or Store Dialogue - as Thabo, mobile platform security lead at Veloce Mobility, a ride-hailing and delivery super-app facing a Play policy strike, an App Store rejection and a data protection authority inquiry in one quarter. Strictly defensive: Veloce's own apps, builds and test devices only, and every chapter's lab builds one component of the Rider Permissions Defensibility File.

18 hours8 chapters32 lessons225 activities8 labs

What you'll learn

Map each permission to its GDPR, ePrivacy, LGPD, Play and App Review duties, and inventory and justify every declared, requested and used permission from the shipped binary.
Minimise permissions with pickers, intents, approximate and while-in-use scoping, platform flags and graceful degradation, and design in-context, honest requests backed by consent records.
Control SDK permission inheritance with merger rules, behavioural audits, privacy manifests and contracts, and reconcile Data safety, privacy labels and declarations with observed behaviour.
Hold the line with CI baselines, budgets, approval workflows, drift checks and device-farm gates, and answer stores and regulators from a verified, per-permission evidence file.

Price:৳12,000