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Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a... by mehrdadn on Thursday May 02, 2019 @02:27PM (#19810968)
Didn't downvote, but Android has had dynamic permissions (since v6?) whose repeated notifications you can suppress, so I'm confused if the comment is still valid.
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Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a... by xvector on Thursday May 02, 2019 @06:56PM (#19813750)
Kind of misses the point - I do mention the robust permission system in Android.

The issue is that the developers themselves don't really seem to care as much about privacy etc as iOS developers. This effectively renders the privacy measures mostly meaningless. If I'm writing my dreams into your app and you can read them on your own server, I've already lost all semblance of privacy.

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