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Re:Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from A... by comex on Sunday March 25, 2018 @02:06AM (#16671001)
On the iPhone this was actually fixed in iOS 11. The standard image picker (UIImagePickerController) now runs out of process, and no longer pops up a permission dialog, but instead just gives the app access to only the photo(s) the user selected.

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/46594741

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Re:Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from A... by tomwilson on Sunday March 25, 2018 @02:09AM (#16671006)
Only fixed if apps want use the UIImagePicker though - many want to show their own image picking interface.
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Re:Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from A... by Twisell on Sunday March 25, 2018 @04:08AM (#16671259)
But so it’s developer choice to ask for more permission that it really need, Apple seems to provide a privacy friendly framework.
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Re:Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from A... by Sylos on Monday March 26, 2018 @11:22PM (#16684936)
What they're saying is that it should be the user's choice, not the developer's. If I want to run your gallery app with only a handful of the pictures that I have, I should be able to do so.

Because ultimately, developers don't really need to care. Too many users don't understand the implications at all. And if it's for example a messenger that all your friends use, you don't really have much of a choice than to trust it, if you want to talk to your friends.

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