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Re:What data do the Google Dialer and Messages apps on Andro... by londons_explore on Monday March 21, 2022 @05:19AM (#30751945)
Thankyou to whoever did this research and wrote it up...

I feel like this is the start of Google being another billion dollars poorer, and EU taxpayers being each a few euros richer...

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Re:What data do the Google Dialer and Messages apps on Andro... by kenoph on Monday March 21, 2022 @08:29AM (#30753277)
I did some research on PII being harvested by Android apps.

TL;DR: The EU could pay a couple of reverse engineers for 2 months and print money out of fines.

I was shocked to discover that (back then?) apps could just straight up read the list of user accounts on the phone without any special permission... Which is mostly fine, except many apps use your email/phone-number as account name or description. Same goes for Wi-Fi SSID and other things.

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