Privacy features in Touch (cyanogenmod)?

J Fernyhough j.fernyhough at gmail.com
Sat Jun 22 15:06:25 UTC 2013


On 22 June 2013 15:12, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Ubuntu, an app will request a privilege during runtime. For
> example, a game might have a "find my friends who already play this
> game" function, that accesses your contacts. The game would work just
> fine if you don't use this function. But if you do use it, Ubuntu
> would then -- and only then -- ask you if you want to grant the app
> access to your contacts.
>
> An app could still ask for a privilege immediately when you launch it.
> But you'd be much less likely to allow it, in that case, than in
> response to an obviously related command. And if a privilege wasn't
> obviously essential to an app, but the app installed *and then*
> refused to work without that privilege, it would be ridiculed and
> downrated.
>

This is excellent! One quick feature request: a "remember this choice"
checkbox. ;)

Are there any plans to also collect app permissions into one place,
for example a "privacy centre" that shows which apps have which
permissions?

J




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