Every single app could be doing the same thing. They ask for pretty broad permissions for purportedly innocent reasons but once given that access they can use i

Every single app could be doing the same thing. They ask for pretty broad permissions for purportedly innocent reasons but once given that access they can use it for anything they choose. This happens because even tech educated people (as you'd expect on HN) insist that they want to sacrifice privacy if it brings functionality [0]. A regular user is probably completely unaware that this could even be a problem. From their perspective they're just getting cool features for free. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23678303 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23678303