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Just about everything I install on my phone is suspect these days with respect to privacy and permissions. Why does BBC weather need to write to my USB storage
by bananas 12y ago
Just about everything I install on my phone is suspect these days with respect to privacy and permissions. Why does BBC weather need to write to my USB storage for example and why do I have to let it?
The Nokia C2 I have floating around is starting to look interesting again. It has no idea where it is.
- Kiro 12y agoYes, BBC Weather. That's it. They are part of this mega anti-privacy NSA conspiracy too!
- gorhill 12y agoYou say this as if it is silly to ask why such an app needs write-access to the USB storage. Why do you think it is not a legitimate question?
- wcoenen 12y agoEvery functional phone knows where it is, in the sense that it knows the signal strength of one or more nearby cell towers. A java app on your Nokia C2 could probably determine its location like this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11628648/how-to-find-user-location-using-cell-tower-in-j2me https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11628648/how-to-find-use...
- bananas 12y agoYeah but there is no possibility of running one of these on S40 platform as J2ME apps don't run in the background.