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Re:Android permissions and hypocrisy by jdavis703 on Monday January 23, 2017 @09:50AM (#13462503)
Facebook seems to be one of the few apps that gets privacy right, only asking for permissions to certain things (e.g. camera and microphone) when you want to use say a video recording feature. Now what's the general trustworthiness of the company? That's hard to say for sure, but at least they're doing app permissions right.
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Re:Android permissions and hypocrisy by evilduck on Monday January 23, 2017 @01:25PM (#13464475)
That's because of how iOS grants camera and mic permissions, not because Facebook did anything right.
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Re:Android permissions and hypocrisy by yAak on Monday January 23, 2017 @01:54PM (#13464811)
It's partially Facebook doing it right, but not exactly noteworthy. iOS devs can proactively request permissions whenever, and tell you whatever useless reason they want, but that usually gets users to tap "Don't Allow" (and may get your app rejected by Apple.)
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