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NO!! No more so than if I gave the app my password directly. If you give someone the keys to your apartment and they rob you it is the thief's fault and your
by throwaway2016a 8y ago
NO!!
No more so than if I gave the app my password directly.
If you give someone the keys to your apartment and they rob you it is the thief's fault and your fault for trusting them. Not the landlord for making a copy of your key when you requested it.
As a user I want API access to my data. As do a lot of people. I am going to be pissed if people like you cause everyone to stop offering APIs because they think people are two irresponsible to be trusted with access to their own data.
APIs provide us data freedom. They are a good thing.
The villain here is pretty clear to me is the company that is abusing your trust by withdrawing your money not the company providing the API.
It is educating people that is broken not that APIs. I don't know when we got to be so trusting that we "absentmindedly" give 10 companies access to our data by clicking straight through a permission dialog that clearly says what I am doing. But absentmindedness is not a good reason to put padding on everything and force everyone to wear kneepads.
- pacala 8y agoThis is not about API vs. not API. It's about hiding critical APIs among benign APIs and training users to click "Accept" on a regular basis. This is a dark pattern if there ever was one, perhaps the darkest of all. It's about the company formerly led by Eric "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place" Schmidt. It's about an ecosystem that requires you to hand out a copy of the key to your apartment to strangers in exchange of minor services on a regular basis, and makes it really easy to do so. I haven't used Android in a while, but here's a quick search that fits my Android experience of yesteryear. Almost every app I installed asked for this overreaching kind of permissions. Transcript with a little easter egg. Glympse needs access to * Identity * Calendar * Contacts * Location * SMS * Phone * Photos/Media/Files * First Born * Wi-fi connection information ACCEPT http://openattitude.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/m-permissions-02-glympse.png http://openattitude.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/m-permiss... https://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1865181-A-Massive-Disappointment-App-Permissions-on-Android-M https://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1865181-A-Massiv...