Exactly this. MANY apps collect all sorts of info they have no need to, and Android happily provides it, with no choice for the user to opt out.
Android needs to enforce a permission model where apps get access to nothing without permission. As it is, only a few specific permissions can be controlled by the user, the rest are all automatically granted to everything.
I'd like to see finer grained schemes. Problem right now is, permissions are granted to multiple, unrelated code paths simultaneously.
If you get X permission in Y role within context Z, you shouldn't be granted it silently also in context FU, which might be malicious.
I'm reminded of how multi level master keyed systems inadvertently create potential master keys that are usually unused. There exists a balance between not enough different levels of masters and too many to the point where nearly any old key wi
My biggest complaint is that Android has various permissions that it lists for apps in the play store, and that are often abused, but that the user has no control over at all. It's nice that we get to day no to some of them, but the rest of the ones they list in the play store should be controllable too.
Fix Android instead of the store? (Score:2)
Isn't is time to beef up the security/privacy model of Android OS?
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Exactly this. MANY apps collect all sorts of info they have no need to, and Android happily provides it, with no choice for the user to opt out.
Android needs to enforce a permission model where apps get access to nothing without permission. As it is, only a few specific permissions can be controlled by the user, the rest are all automatically granted to everything.
Re: (Score:2)
I'd like to see finer grained schemes. Problem right now is, permissions are granted to multiple, unrelated code paths simultaneously.
If you get X permission in Y role within context Z, you shouldn't be granted it silently also in context FU, which might be malicious.
I'm reminded of how multi level master keyed systems inadvertently create potential master keys that are usually unused. There exists a balance between not enough different levels of masters and too many to the point where nearly any old key wi
Re:Fix Android instead of the store? (Score:2)
My biggest complaint is that Android has various permissions that it lists for apps in the play store, and that are often abused, but that the user has no control over at all. It's nice that we get to day no to some of them, but the rest of the ones they list in the play store should be controllable too.