Abstract
The medical, social and business disturbance associated with the COVID-19 coronavirus caused dramatical changes in the usage of mobile devices. People were forced during the lockdown to use different mobile-based context-aware application to cope their lives while staying home. Consequently, a typical user's privacy preferences and behavior were altered due to that fact that these applications at that moment are found to be an optimum solution to endure the predicament. This paper is aimed to assess how COVID-19 pandemic changes the mobile usage and contextual privacy behavior in Kuwait. Toward this goal, an information visualization system is developed to accumulate the user behavior dataset from their mobiles. The result shows the average mobile usage hours have increased by 60% and in total the user behavior changed by 27.9% in loosen their contextual privacy.
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