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nrlucas | 13 years ago

It's going to be tough to convince every app developer to have their applications work in those circumstances. I would imagine some permissions which are core to the application would be required. Of course, then we are back at the start when app developers mark all their permissions to be core.

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Zigurd|13 years ago

"then we are back at the start when app developers mark all their permissions to be core"

It should always be the user's or administrator's choice. There really is no such thing as a "core" permission. Of course some apps become a nullity without some access, but an unhandled security exception in those cases could result, for example, in a more-detailed system message asking if you want to uninstall the app, since you have decided against giving it permissions that the developer has decided are essential. This would also alert you to when a non-location app was trying to sneak a look at where you are.

moron4hire|13 years ago

Of course, they would probably just compensate by making the entire app useless without the track-u permissions enabled :(