Android Apps Data Sharing Study

[Guest BashyUK]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11443111

Hmm, it is a criticism I have had when displayed with the info screen, in reality what does it all mean?...yet still I install apps :lol:

Edited October 1, 2010 by BashyUK

[Guest trstn]

I read it, and decide if I trust what comes up. Ultimately I usually click yes, but the day a game asks for contact access I'll click no.

If you think about it, no other platform gives you the choice, my iphone owning friends have got no idea what their apps access, whether ignored or not, it's great that android is so transparent.

[Guest BashyUK]

I read it, and decide if I trust what comes up. Ultimately I usually click yes, but the day a game asks for contact access I'll click no.

If you think about it, no other platform gives you the choice, my iphone owning friends have got no idea what their apps access, whether ignored or not, it's great that android is so transparent.

I suppose that's the crux of the issue...is it really as transparent as they say? When it says, sd card access, sms access etc, what does that really mean?

[Guest spammyspam]

Hopefully TaintDroid will pave the way for a permissions-based firewall. Displaying the permissions are one thing, but ultimately this is useless if you can't be selective about what to allow. Of course developers will hate it which is why Google would never sanction such a facility themselves.

[Guest zurpher]

Hopefully TaintDroid will pave the way for a permissions-based firewall. Displaying the permissions are one thing, but ultimately this is useless if you can't be selective about what to allow. Of course developers will hate it which is why Google would never sanction such a facility themselves.

Did anything happen since October or does the problem persist with no appropriate solution?