This survey interviewed 6,500 users in ten different countries: Brazil, China, Spain, India, South Africa, United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany and Japan. The results obtained are for the year 2019. According to MEF, 34% of Brazilians did not install applications with an excessive number of permissions in the past year. Among those interviewed, 48% said they avoided it only once or twice, while 18% did not care about this factor. Only China and Spain match Brazil in terms of mistrust. In China, 25% of respondents avoided installing apps based on this criterion and 57% occasionally took this stance. Like the Brazilian population, only 18% of Chinese were not suspicious of apps. In Spanish lands, the percentages presented were 37%, 45% and 18%, respectively. On the other hand, Japan is the country that had the highest confidence index in mobile applications during 2019. There, 38% were not suspicious of applications when downloading. Only 27% of Japanese who participated in the survey said they avoided installations frequently, while 34% had this stance only occasionally. Mobile purchases These habits undoubtedly have an impact on mobile commerce. Brazil is the country where this is most visible, since 79% of users failed to complete at least one purchase by cell phone in 2019 because they do not trust the company. In this sense, South Africa comes in second, with 77%. Japan once again takes the opposite path, as 55% of respondents said they did not cancel any cell phone purchases during the past year for these reasons.
