Oct 092014
 

This interview reveals what is almost routine sorts of news, that commonly used apps – flashlights in this case – give away your world. But it is nevertheless one of the more extreme examples both in terms of silliness (no justification for requesting, much less receiving, permission to access some kinds of data) and extent (impact over number of people). Nothing short of nation states are interested in things at this scale

To save you some clicking around, this is the full list of apps on which they report.

 Posted by at 11:51 am on October 9, 2014