<story><title>Google to ban financial lending apps from accessing user photos, contacts</title><url>https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-to-ban-financial-lending-apps-from-accessing-user-photos-contacts</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>josephcsible</author><text>This feels like treating one particularly visible symptom of the problem instead of fixing the actual problem. What Google should do instead is prevent apps from refusing to work or disabling unrelated functionality just because some permissions are denied (e.g., if you deny your banking app permission to access your camera, everything but mobile check deposit should still have to work). They should use a two-pronged approach to do so:&lt;p&gt;1. Make that a rule in the Play Store and ban apps that violate it&lt;p&gt;2. Make Android present convincing fake data to apps when permissions are denied</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hakre</author><text>Additionally there should be a sandbox mode. While you give the app access to Photos and Contacts, it&amp;#x27;s an actual sandbox not containing &lt;i&gt;any&lt;/i&gt; photo nor &lt;i&gt;any&lt;/i&gt; contact. So the app gets what it asks for (the permission) while the user can still control the data.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google to ban financial lending apps from accessing user photos, contacts</title><url>https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-to-ban-financial-lending-apps-from-accessing-user-photos-contacts</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>josephcsible</author><text>This feels like treating one particularly visible symptom of the problem instead of fixing the actual problem. What Google should do instead is prevent apps from refusing to work or disabling unrelated functionality just because some permissions are denied (e.g., if you deny your banking app permission to access your camera, everything but mobile check deposit should still have to work). They should use a two-pronged approach to do so:&lt;p&gt;1. Make that a rule in the Play Store and ban apps that violate it&lt;p&gt;2. Make Android present convincing fake data to apps when permissions are denied</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marissachan</author><text>&amp;quot;2. Make Android present convincing fake data to apps when permissions are denied&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This is actually a feature with MIUI, though I am not sure if this is part of the global release or only Xiaomi.eu, a modified version of the chinese release). 
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