Everyone knows all the apps on your phone
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Everyone knows all the apps on your phone
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#3Nice analysis. Google should take notice. Do worldwide used apps do this too?
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#4If Google truly cared about privacy, each app would run in its own strict jail, and permissions would be faked by default. Also, easy malware by Israel or anyone else would not be a thing. As it stands, apps know everything I am doing, and I get targeted spam email rather immediately.
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#5> I don’t even know where to begin unpacking this madness. How is knowing whether I have the Xbox or the Playstation app installed on my phone essential to their Swiggy's core functionality?
Probably has to do with feeding adtech's hunger for personal information, or fingerprinting maybe (not sure if that's a thing in the context of phone apps).
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#6Just wow. I assumed that Google patched this few years back but guess they left a few backdoors.
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#7Nice analysis. Google should take notice. Do worldwide used apps do this too?
From the article - Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Subway Surfers, and Truecaller use this too
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#8Just wow. I assumed that Google patched this few years back but guess they left a few backdoors.
I would pretty much assume that any Android phone is a massive privacy leak and security risk. I’d hope that an iPhone is better, but I’d be wrong.
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#9Can you see in the Play store before installing an app exactly which other apps it's allowed to talk to? Can you see it on your phone and override?
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#10If Google truly cared about privacy, each app would run in its own strict jail, and permissions would be faked by default. Also, easy malware by Israel or anyone else would not be a thing. As it stands, apps know everything I am doing, and I get targeted spam email rather immediately.
> apps know everything I am doing
I think I call bullshit on this.
But I agree that they could do way more and that they don't seem to care.