<html>
<head>
<style><!--
.hmmessage P
{
margin:0px;
padding:0px
}
body.hmmessage
{
font-size: 12pt;
font-family:Calibri
}
--></style></head>
<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>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.<br><br><div>> Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 15:14:45 +0100<br>> From: robie.basak@ubuntu.com<br>> To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com<br>> Subject: Re: Privacy features in Touch (cyanogenmod)?<br>> <br>> It's not much good to know that an app is misbehaving. I'd like to stop<br>> it.<br>> <br>> Having an all-or-nothing choice, like Android, often means that apps get<br>> feature creep, and before you know it your apps have far more<br>> permissions than you'd prefer. Individually we may know that we have a<br>> choice to not use the app, but social forces mean that we generally have<br>> to use it anyway. Few people spend time on writing or improving an<br>> alternative app if "everyone" is already using the one that needs too<br>> many permissions).<br>> <br>> I'd like to see an alternative where the app won't even know when it<br>> doesn't have permission to do something.<br>> <br>> If I didn't give it permission to have GPS, it'll just see that I have<br>> GPS turned off all the time to save battery. If I didn't give it<br>> permission to have Internet access, I'd like the app to think that I<br>> just happen not to have neither wifi nor phone signal right now. If I<br>> don't want to give it permission to view my contacts, it should just see<br>> an empty address book. No permission to use my accelerator? The app<br>> should just think that I don't have one.<br>> <br>> -- <br>> Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list<br>> Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com<br>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss<br></div> </div></body>
</html>