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He is using Android 5.1... that was before the whole permission system no? Besides other people don't seem to be able to reproduce it.

• fractalwrench 9y ago
  Android Apps targeting Android 6.0+ need to handle grant/revocation of permissions at runtime. Previous versions of Android would simply ask for the same permissions upfront when a user installed an app.
  • slow_donkey 9y ago
    Yes but it's still possible to target a lower version of Android and request all the permissions up front which must users would agree to
    • zamber 9y ago
      That's exactly what the Mi Home (for Xiaomi IoT stuff) app does. Pesky little buggers.
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• illumin8 9y ago
  Does that make it right for Facebook to gather this data? It seems entirely unnecessary.
  • taf2 9y ago
    If I'm understanding the other comments in the thread then the behavior is based on how Android worked in that older version... e.g. if (on) { /* execute code for said feature */ } Which implies: " In the version of Android mentioned the on flag is on when you install. It was a feature of that version of Android to turn it on... how can FB know you didn't want it on?"
    • JoshMnem 9y ago
      > It was a feature of that version of Android to turn it on... how can FB know you didn't want it on?" What user wants that "feature" on? (or at least to send the data to Facebook for storage)
      • mercer 9y ago
        Yeah, that's the whole issue. I cannot think of any reason why Facebook would want to store that data that benefits the user.
• crowbahr 9y ago
  Permissions existed, absolutely. They were just "Accepted when installed" type permissions rather than "Hey, would you kindly grant me access to all of your data" type permissions.
• kemps4 9y ago
  I was able to reproduce it.