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Everyone knows all the apps on your phone

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1195 points gniting | 1 comments | 3/29/2025, 9:26:00 PM | HN request time: 0.254s | source
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graemep ◴[3/30/2025, 10:32:00 AM] No.43523023[source]▶

The HSBC UK Android app look s at what apps you have, and refuses to run if you have apps with certain permissions (such as an alternative launcher) and now refuses to run if you have any apps from outside the Google app store.

I have complained about this here before, but the end result was that I asked for a hardware security device and use the website instead.

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1. fudged71 ◴[3/31/2025, 4:01:00 PM] No.43536518[source]▶

That's pretty funny, right? They have to spy on you to tell you what else you are using could be spying on you. Do they happen to say this data is not transmitted to the company?