After installing an application on a smartphone, a user starts receiving pop-up ads for recently visited physical stores. The user also receives prompts to install other applications. Which of the…

Account access allows an app to associate with a user's linked profile, purchase history, loyalty program data, or shopping patterns; this account-linked data is used to serve targeted ads for recently visited stores and trigger prompts to install related applications - revoking account access severs that data-sharing relationship.

Revoking mobile data would block all internet connectivity for the app but would not remove the root cause, which is account-linked behavioral data being used to generate targeted notifications.

Location access enables real-time GPS tracking, but store-based ads can still be generated from account-linked purchase history and loyalty card data without requiring active location permission.

Contacts access allows the app to read the user's contact list and is unrelated to store-visit advertising or app-install prompts.