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> what is with you people thinking like nothing else other than Apple products exist? I was addressing the specific claim that “everyone” had to give these permissions.
Can they ask for read/write permissions on dozens of folders? I have no idea I never got interested in iphones.
It’s still not ideal; mobile platforms are not designed to protect you from state actors.
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A more likely scenario which mirrors how discriminatory laws work elsewhere: 1. Get arrested for a minor offence like speeding. 2. Law enforcement checks your app and infers you are gay (maybe wedding photos of you and your spouse?) 3. It was going to be just a fine, but now you are facing prosecution for the much more serious offence of being gay. 4. Law enforcement officer can make the charges disappear for the rig…
No, it’s worse. All of these steps are asynchronous besides #1, which they don’t need to do upfront… We are apparently in the age of “I can draw a square on google maps, so that makes me privy to [chunk of mass privacy information]”. Worse is they don’t even need the mapping platform to cooperate. Most of this information probably still flows through second-party data brokers or else we would have heard whispers that…
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You can’t grant access on iOS “to view / edit / delete all/any data”, that’s physically not possible, even with the hidden SDKs that only select parties have access to.
Doesn't Apple's MDM allow that?
Every country should have rights to control what enters their borders. Be it phones or people. Nothing unreasonable here considering the existing standards of border control around the world. Just next logical step to prevent terrorism and undesirable activities. Don't like it, don't go.
> Don't like it, don't go. I am not going, but I guess players do not have this choice?
ANY time I go through US airport security, I don't take my phone. I take a burner phone that doesn't have any of my accounts logged in or personal data on it.
From my understanding, they can and will dd your whole phone image to some national security database while holding you for 'enhanced screening.'
Permissions from Aurora Store (3rd party to Play Store): Hayya: - control vibration - have full network access - prevent phone from sleeping - run at startup - run foreground service - view Wi-Fi connections - view network connections - access sensor data at a high sampling rate - access approximate location only in the foreground - access precise location only the foreground - listen to C2DM messages Etheraz: - acce…
I'm guessing they used some framework and the libraries they used ask for a broad set of permissions because they offer access to their functions. But they're not necessarily used. Also considering they're asking for a permission for a protocol that was shut down 7 years ago, the framework must be quite old. Android permissions were less granular back then. I know someone in Germany and their covid tracking app tells…
What if you don’t have a smart phone? Or hell, what about one that’s 5+ years old? Are they just SoL?
Most likely you are SoL. By the sounds of it they simply won't let you into the country unless you can show that you've installed their covid tracking app
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> there was nothing specific that the mobile app could do that a simple website couldn’t … I’m sure even a printed QR code would of sufficed. I don’t know about that app specifically, but most of the major ticketing providers are doing dynamic barcodes[1] now that are effectively TOTPs for entry. You can’t do this reliably on the web for a major event because you can’t assume network connectivity, and obviously a pri…
> You can’t do this reliably on the web for a major event because you can’t assume network connectivity I can't believe I'm saying this, but you could've use PWA instead (except for brightness).