[Shywim]

Some replies say that the user should take a second look at what permissions they give, but in the case of Android apps the permission to use the Account Manager (used to register a service account like Facebook, Google, Twitter or any other things that need to synchronize in the background) is displayed as a "Contacts" permission to the user.

So some apps like Facebook might synchronize or make other uses of contacts with their service accounts, but many other service don't do anything with contacts and doesn't EVEN request the actual contacts permission but their permission request is still displayed as "Contacts".

How can the user be able to do responsible choices in giving apps permissions when the permissions layer of the OS make no sense?

[switch007]

I may be misremembering/totally off base, but didn't Android go through some rounds of "simplifying" or "renaming" permissions over the years to basically obfuscate and confuse? (Or have they always been terrible?)