Yeah, it's not clear from the article how this is much different from "Google lets app developers look at all your photos" and "Google lets apps keep track of y

Yeah, it's not clear from the article how this is much different from "Google lets app developers look at all your photos" and "Google lets apps keep track of your location". Like uh, ok, obviously. The author even admits it's "unsurprising", so what's the point of the article? It may not be a morally good practice but it's an extremely common one and hardly newsworthy. I get that there's some tie trying to be made between this and Cambridge Analytica but it seems like a huge stretch.