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Urgh, I am so over permissions. I don't mind if my app accesses geo as long as it doesn't exfiltrate. In a perfect world, only a small subset of an app's data
by awinter-py 11y ago
Urgh, I am so over permissions.
I don't mind if my app accesses geo as long as it doesn't exfiltrate. In a perfect world, only a small subset of an app's data should leave the device.
This ends up being pretty hard to do generically. If a geofence event triggers a network call, has geo information been exfiltrated?
As things are, I don't feel like I'm past having to trust the app author.
- dredmorbius 11y agoI've suggested separately that Google should can the concept of supporting apps and look at what functions it wants to provide, and provide a Free Software framework for supporting that, with a guidance structure specifying what app authors and package maintainers must and must not do. Pretty much Debian. https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/2eg1rG6kmJp https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/2eg1rG6k... (Caution: harsh language.) Edit: Updated link. Had the wrong Android rant referenced earlier.