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Re:Google promised its contact tracing app was completely pr... by lurkerasdfh8 on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @07:36PM (#26963475)
> but privileged apps can already do much worse. If one of these apps is malicious

One of these apps (google play service) downloads Ads non stop, mine wifi and gps data and send to a central server, etc. All against user wishes ...or even knowledge!

At which point do you draw the line for an app to be malicious?

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Re:Google promised its contact tracing app was completely pr... by chc on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @10:09PM (#26964626)
In this case, "malicious" clearly means "interested in misusing the private data under discussion."
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