I don't think people quite understand what the purpose of some mobile releases are. When you install it, does it require access to your identity, account, calls or messages? Often the intended purpose of creating something like this is to get people to download it, try it, farm the contact information from their phone and then sell the phone numbers or email addresses to a third party company that uses them to spam you with advertisements. They will get people to download this and even if they have to refund everyone their money, they collected enough information to make them millions at no cost.
Uh... what? Have any proof of that? If any game or app requires access to any of those, you have to give them permission, at least on iOS. Oh, on top of that it's illegal. Where's your sources on this conspiracy theory?
Ever notice how there are 85 different flashlights in the Google Play store that all do the same thing and for some reason require access to your call list or text messages?
Can you tell me why a Transformers game requires access to the phone number calling me?
This is common practice, it's called data mining.
Yes, but you should still be able to turn off the apps access to those locations. At least you can on iOS.
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I don't think people quite understand what the purpose of some mobile releases are. When you install it, does it require access to your identity, account, calls or messages? Often the intended purpose of creating something like this is to get people to download it, try it, farm the contact information from their phone and then sell the phone numbers or email addresses to a third party company that uses them to spam you with advertisements. They will get people to download this and even if they have to refund everyone their money, they collected enough information to make them millions at no cost.
Uh... what? Have any proof of that? If any game or app requires access to any of those, you have to give them permission, at least on iOS. Oh, on top of that it's illegal. Where's your sources on this conspiracy theory?
Ever notice how there are 85 different flashlights in the Google Play store that all do the same thing and for some reason require access to your call list or text messages?
Can you tell me why a Transformers game requires access to the phone number calling me?
This is common practice, it's called data mining.
Yes, but you should still be able to turn off the apps access to those locations. At least you can on iOS.