I think the more important thing is coming up with a better way to do these things _without_ permissions. The core issue of permissions systems in my mind is t

I think the more important thing is coming up with a better way to do these things _without_ permissions. The core issue of permissions systems in my mind is the user. All of the pop-up permissions boxes on phones are really nice, it's helpful that Android now removes permissions from apps if they're unused. But that doesn't stop the average user from just hitting "yes" to permissions without reading them because they just want to use the app they just installed. It's exactly the same problem as nobody reading Ts&Cs etc. Our species has an apathy for this stuff. We should really just be sandboxing the shit out of everything. On Android (as an example) if I install a file manager app, I can only give it access to _everything_. But also as a user, even if I could give it granular access, it's easier to just give it access to everything because it's...easier. The location pop-up is nice, I usually hit "only while using the app" but I'm sure plenty of other people give their apps access to fine location data at all times. Is this a platform problem? Maybe Apple is right in being so strict about usage of data, even though privacy is just marketing/a selling point to them (I laugh if people think the world's richest company _genuinely_ cares about privacy on a human rather than financial level).