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Fixes “permission blindness”? So, the current form of Google Play (app) Store “Data Security” section of each app being shown as “(blank)” is surely yet another form of “permission blindness”.

Google Play Store being proactive in protecting these end-users from their own form of stupidity (or “permission blindness”, as you have eloquently pointed out) is just opening themselves to potential liability ramifications instead of deferring to end-user’s responsibility of maintaining their own privacy.

I think that the term “permission blindess” is better referred to as an app having zero privilege.

And “App Privileges” should have referred to runtime permissions and should have been displayed in the first place at the Google Play Store instead of install-time privileges.



Your apps have no permissions until you allow them. If you install spyware and it wants all your contacts and files it has to ask. You simply select "no" and then remove it.

Apps would force you to consent to eg contact permissions "in case you want to share something to a contact" and then harvest all your contacts. Apps can no longer use that pretense.


you get prompted for such granularity of privacy AFTER it gets installed but not before you could preview such app settings.


Yes. It has no access after being installed and before prompting. What exactly is the issue?


“Permission blindness” still remains at the stage BEFORE app installation.

Perhaps we can call what it is now as “trust me first, then we will let you verify”.

When it should be “trust but verify first”.




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