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Re:Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from A... by MBCook on Sunday March 25, 2018 @12:36AM (#16670794)
They don’t get access to everything on your phone do they? As I remember (and this was years ago) they could ask for the photo dialogue to pop up and you could choose a photo but the app didn’t actually get access to all of them, only the ones you chose.
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Re:Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from A... by TheSpiceIsLife on Sunday March 25, 2018 @01:16AM (#16670880)
My understanding of the problem is that you click agree or ok or whatever and then... well, we don’t really know what happens after that.

Unless you can audit the code, or someone you trust has, who knows what our devices are doing.

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Re:Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from A... by codeka on Sunday March 25, 2018 @01:29AM (#16670910)
But they don't have to ask for access to all your pictures. You can ask Android to show the standard picker, get the one picture you've selected and that's it.

Or you can do it the way FB does it, by asking for permission to access all your pictures and build your own non-standard picker...

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