Identifying Intrusive Mobile Apps
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Mobile apps entertain and assist us, make it easy to communicate with friends and family, and provide tools ranging from maps to electronic wallets. But these apps could also seek more device information than they need to do their job, such as personal data and sensor data from components, like cameras and GPS trackers.
Read our blog post here: https://goo.gl/XtPzUX
Mobile apps entertain and assist us, make it easy to communicate with friends and family, and provide tools ranging from maps to electronic wallets. But these apps could also seek more device information than they need to do their job, such as personal data and sensor data from components, like cameras and GPS trackers.
Would you say that Instagram asking for access to all my photos is normal behavior? I bet your algorithm would given that access photos and files is such an abundantly used permission on android.
However, why can I not share photos from Google Photos to Instagram to post it there? Why is access to all photos and files a permission asked and provided so nonchalantly? What we really need is finer controls about apps and their own folders and photo galleries. Let's not share all files with all apps just because an app needs to write a simple file somewhere.1w
