They could extract pictures. In the future, once more devices have AI chips on board and maybe there's an API for seeing what's in the pictures, too, with ML, I

They could extract pictures. In the future, once more devices have AI chips on board and maybe there's an API for seeing what's in the pictures, too, with ML, I could see developers abuse that, and extract all sorts of relevant info from people's phones. Regardless of how dangerous Android permissions are or aren't, I do agree with the larger point that Google is scared about what will happen to Facebook, because it knows those regulations or even a "privacy revolution" that may come in the wake of this will impact it, too. It's probably not even just this one event that will hurt Google. This sentiment has been growing over the past few years. If Google hasn't noticed it growing, then they are out of touch. If the anti-privacy trend continues, it will be bad news for Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and even Apple (which seems to be backtracking on some privacy features lately). I do hope that at the very least the anti-privacy trend pushes companies to limit data gathering and use new privacy-preserving tech that doesn't allow them to look at the data at all. And I hope they do that before it's too late (for them).