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Re:India’s Flipkart to shut down website, thanks to populari... by winter_blue on Monday April 27, 2015 @02:43AM (#9444681)
It'll be better if there are checkboxes next to each permission, and if the user doesn't grant a certain permission, the app can know.

Older apps targeting older API levels will receive fake data, whereas newer apps will be able to know whether they were actually granted the permission or not.

This would prevent apps (and app developers) from being left in the dark, and would also kill the "all or nothing" permissions model currently in place.

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Re:India’s Flipkart to shut down website, thanks to populari... by thewhitetulip on Monday April 27, 2015 @07:58AM (#9445620)
Android starting from 4.4 does have a privacy feature that allows you to control what data out of permissions a particular app can access, on my phone I have turned everything off for everything. P.S. I don't have any google app
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Re:India’s Flipkart to shut down website, thanks to populari... by kazagistar on Monday April 27, 2015 @05:59AM (#9445261)
"Sorry, but please reenable GPS so SuperFlashlight can function."

Nah.

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