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Re:Introducing Android 9 Pie by tokyodude on Monday August 06, 2018 @11:33PM (#17703692)
Facebook may just make the app not run unless you give it mic permission. Of course you don't have to run it. I have seen apps that explicitly refuse to run unless you give them the permissions they want on iOS even though they shouldn't need them for 99% of their functionality.
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Re:Introducing Android 9 Pie by dullgiulio on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @06:09AM (#17705149)
Wouldn't such a behaviour be against GDPR? Probably not because of technicalities, but then I would hope the EU to make yet another piece of legislation to address this.
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Re:Introducing Android 9 Pie by realusername on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @06:11AM (#17705156)
That's where Google/Apple should step in and ban those apps from the store.
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