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Apps demanding excessive permissions raise privacy concerns

Original: a flashlight wants your contacts. a calculator wants your location. a keyboard wants everything you type🙃 every permissi

A widely shared privacy warning points out that mobile apps routinely request far more access than they need: flashlights asking for contacts, calculators wanting location data, and keyboards seeing everything typed. The advice circulating with the warning: check permissions before installing apps, limit location, camera and microphone access, and revoke rights from apps no longer in use.

Why now: App permission overreach is a recurring privacy concern, and the simple, relatable examples make the warning easy to share.

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Evidence

• a flashlight wants your contacts. a calculator wants your location. a keyboard wants everything you type🙃 every permission is a key to your data in this video: - check permissions before you install - limit location, camera and mic - strip rights from apps you don't use - spot… · chryptorlabs · 1

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