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Re:Sex toy company Lovense admits its Android app locally st... by Johnny555 on Friday November 10, 2017 @07:18PM (#15674212)
How about just giving users the ability to turn off a permission. Like Google already does.

I use that a lot to turn off contacts access to apps that have no business reading my contacts.

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Re:Sex toy company Lovense admits its Android app locally st... by squarefoot on Friday November 10, 2017 @07:30PM (#15674259)
The problem is that 99% of users don't know about them or don't know how to disable them. The damage was already done when years ago apps started to require permissions for hardware or data they shouldn't have access to, so that users now blindly accept every request because "the app comes from the official store, so it is safe".
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Re:Sex toy company Lovense admits its Android app locally st... by mattkrea on Friday November 10, 2017 @10:18PM (#15674823)
*Like Google added in Android 6 but Apple had for years.
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