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Re:Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from A... by antpls on Sunday March 25, 2018 @08:09AM (#16671823)
I'm not sure about recent Android version, but on my 3~4 years old Alcatel with Android v4.3, there is already a rudimentary preference menu listing the last accesses of app to resources (eg "Instagram accessed contact list 3 hours ago"). The menu is not easily accessible, I found it by chance.
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Re:Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from A... by Sylos on Monday March 26, 2018 @11:10PM (#16684880)
You're probably seeing the App Ops menu.

That appeared in 4.3, hardly accessible. Was made somewhat more accessible in 4.4 and then was patched out in something like 4.4.1 or so. I presume, some Google exec got to know of it and demanded it removed.

Starting with Android 6, there's the new permission model, meaning that a similar screen is added to the settings of each app, but it doesn't show when an access happened (or at least it does not for me on Android 8.1).

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