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[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Typically, the app needs to ask for permissions like that, though. On Android, they need to ask to become a "Device admin", and they need to specify what specifically they'll use that access for. I imagine (though I'm unsure since it's never happened to me) they need to ask to update those permissions if they want their uses to change.

[–] ParetoOptimalDev@lemmy.today 3 points 10 months ago

Agreed, but its not perfect. I recall but couldn't recover a link to a story about some application bypassing android or iPhone permissions.

Another big recent flaw allowed apps without the permission to draw over other apps.

https://blog.checkpoint.com/research/android-permission-security-flaw/