Mind Your Own Business.Feckers.

kneemos

If I download something from the Playstore why does it need access to everything bar the kitchen sink and what do they do with it?If I may be so bold as to ask.

shedweller

Make money off it, i expect.

Rucking_Fetard

No one cares, even when you tell them that such and such has no business being able to send SMS, read your contacts/camera/Wi Fi/whatever.

"It's free Rucking":eek:


It's only got worse lately with the new playstore update. Apps can sneak in an extra permission much easier now.

Google Play Store UI change means apps can silently gain access to deadly permissions

Android no longer reveals app permission changes in automatic updates

kneemos

Rucking_Fetard wrote: »

No one cares, even when you tell them that such and such has no business being able to send SMS, read your contacts/camera/Wi Fi/whatever.

"It's free Rucking":eek:


It's only got worse lately with the new playstore update. Apps can sneak in an extra permission much easier now.

Google Play Store UI change means apps can silently gain access to deadly permissions

Android no longer reveals app permission changes in automatic updates

What are the chances of private photos of your mother,daughter or children ending up on a porn site.

Taltos

kneemos wrote: »

What are the chances of private photos of your mother,daughter or children ending up on a porn site.

All too easy, Know of a 14 yr old girl in Dublin who this happened to. Gardai were called in pronto but I never heard what happened. Danger of facebook (and others) these days, so many photos are out there.

Recondite49

kneemos wrote: »

If I download something from the Playstore why does it need access to everything bar the kitchen sink and what do they do with it?If I may be so bold as to ask.

Hi chief,

Have you considered using F-Droid ? It doesn't require obscene amounts of personal information and only installs Free and Open Source software. Naturally this means that not everything in the Google Play Store is in there and vice versa.

solomafioso

If you have a rooted device you could try X-Privacy.

kneemos

Good ideas.Notice recently that they have access to your camera and photos.What the hell is going on,agree to it or not
it should be illegal to gain that level of intrusion.

Maximus Alexander

The permissions are to give the application access to modules of the Android OS, you're not giving them permission to copy or otherwise use your information and, in the overwhelming majority of cases, there would be nothing sinister about this.

Android is designed in such a way that most system components require the user to approve applications for access that a program on, say your Windows desktop, doesn't have to ask for. This is what causes these scary-looking permission boxes to pop up when you're installing the app. Any program you download on your computer could potentially, for example, scour your hard drive for photos, videos and contacts and send them all to a remote server and you'd never know anything about it.

The key is to avoid downloading software from a questionable source. It's wise to be security conscious, but I wouldn't go thinking that because an app asks for access to your camera it's doing something sinister.

The trend these days is for everything to be social-networked, because apparently none of us can do anything anymore without telling everyone we know about it, so most apps try to get aboard this bandwagon and offer social features which may involve accessing your contacts, the internet, your location, the camera, etc. Even if you disable or never use these features the app still has to request the permissions in order to install.

I would add though that if an app is asking for permissions that there is no rational explanation for you should be wary. If you were downloaded an e-reader that wanted access to the microphone you'd have to wonder why. Most of the time if you explore the app though, it will make sense.