Privacy features in Touch (cyanogenmod)?

[Matt B.]

Yeah. This seems like a great way to solve the problem. As I understand it this is what Cyanogenmod is implementing and what I wondered if ubuntu would incorporate. The cyanogenmod method shouldn't need more than one dialogue to accomplish this.

> Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 15:14:45 +0100
> From: robie.basak at ubuntu.com
> To: ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Privacy features in Touch (cyanogenmod)?
> 
> It's not much good to know that an app is misbehaving. I'd like to stop
> it.
> 
> Having an all-or-nothing choice, like Android, often means that apps get
> feature creep, and before you know it your apps have far more
> permissions than you'd prefer. Individually we may know that we have a
> choice to not use the app, but social forces mean that we generally have
> to use it anyway. Few people spend time on writing or improving an
> alternative app if "everyone" is already using the one that needs too
> many permissions).
> 
> I'd like to see an alternative where the app won't even know when it
> doesn't have permission to do something.
>  
> If I didn't give it permission to have GPS, it'll just see that I have
> GPS turned off all the time to save battery.  If I didn't give it
> permission to have Internet access, I'd like the app to think that I
> just happen not to have neither wifi nor phone signal right now.  If I
> don't want to give it permission to view my contacts, it should just see
> an empty address book. No permission to use my accelerator? The app
> should just think that I don't have one.
> 
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