Privacy risks with smartphone technologies when using the mobile Internet

This paper presents the results of a study about privacy risks when communicating and using the mobile Internet. For a better understanding of the wider issues a brief introduction explains the capacity of smartphones to protect a user’s privacy and the availability of circumvention tools against state initiated blocking. A case study researches the relationships and associations between the level of the telecommunications market development, the wealth of a country, user proficiency, the affordability of mobile technology, the level of user tolerance of state-implemented content censorship, and similar privacy threats. © 2019, Europäische Rechtsakademie (ERA).