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Everyone knows all the apps on your phone

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1192 points gniting | 4 comments | 29 Mar 25 21:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.667s | source
1. OutOfHere ◴[29 Mar 25 23:28 UTC] No.43519697[source]▶
If Google truly cared about privacy, each app would run in its own strict jail, and permissions would be faked by default. Also, easy malware by Israel or anyone else would not be a thing. As it stands, apps know everything I am doing, and I get targeted spam email rather immediately.
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2. brunoqc ◴[29 Mar 25 23:41 UTC] No.43519767[source]▶
> apps know everything I am doing

I think I call bullshit on this.

But I agree that they could do way more and that they don't seem to care.

3. JumpCrisscross ◴[30 Mar 25 00:43 UTC] No.43520083[source]▶
> If Google truly cared about privacy

Have they even been pretending on this front?

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4. Speedy218 ◴[30 Mar 25 00:51 UTC] No.43520135[source]▶
They put in a lot of work to make it seem like they do believe it or not, I'm not sure how well it is working out for them though.