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While I fully agree with your reasons for why there SHOULD be outrage, I think the reason for why there is still NOT mass outrage is pretty obvious. In short:

While I fully agree with your reasons for why there SHOULD be outrage, I think the reason for why there is still NOT mass outrage is pretty obvious. In short: Consumers don't know and don't care. If they get an app they just click through whatever screens are needed until they can install it. Odds are they don't know what the concept of "permissions" means, or why they should care. Nothing in their phone tells them they should care. It is only fairly recently that some mainstream publications have written about this overreaching and even then the reach is limited. Then you have Google itself that realized it would need to increasingly ask for new permissions in the future, so it basically just asked for EVERYTHING for their apps, so that future updates wouldn't flag anything. So in short, there absolutely should be mass outrage and more granular, user-controlled permissions on Android. Will that happen? Unlikely.

gombotzd 12y ago
i fully agree to both of you. as a former apple user and now really happy android user this topic is such an utterly mess. in a group of techs and lawyers we recently discussed the right of ones data. i agree that data protection should allow people and companies to agree on whatever they want, but it should also be possible to revoke rights at any stage and this is not showing in the system especially of googles android but also other systems it is a very bad sign that in our society people have higher awareness that somebody might send them a paper with some advertising (address) than that some applications will send all the data out of their contact list plus their movement profile pretty weird
on_and_off 12y ago
Consumers have been trained to click on any 'yes' box for decades. From 'do you really wish to exit?' to 'accept this licence', people have been trained to just click on the yes button. Furthermore, it does not seem trivial to me to add a granular permission system to Android. Beyond the permission system itself, retro-compatibility and implementation by third party apps seems really problematic to me (not impossible, just a lot of work). I just hope that it does not stay in 'low-priority vs high difficulty' hell forever.

gombotzd 12y ago

i fully agree to both of you. as a former apple user and now really happy android user this topic is such an utterly mess. in a group of techs and lawyers we recently discussed the right of ones data. i agree that data protection should allow people and companies to agree on whatever they want, but it should also be possible to revoke rights at any stage and this is not showing in the system especially of googles android but also other systems it is a very bad sign that in our society people have higher awareness that somebody might send them a paper with some advertising (address) than that some applications will send all the data out of their contact list plus their movement profile pretty weird

on_and_off 12y ago

Consumers have been trained to click on any 'yes' box for decades. From 'do you really wish to exit?' to 'accept this licence', people have been trained to just click on the yes button. Furthermore, it does not seem trivial to me to add a granular permission system to Android. Beyond the permission system itself, retro-compatibility and implementation by third party apps seems really problematic to me (not impossible, just a lot of work). I just hope that it does not stay in 'low-priority vs high difficulty' hell forever.