alt Hacker NewsPunishing Google for preventing apps from reading all your private data at a whim is quite a take to involve EU for.
Without this enforcement, malware games and apps like Facebook were just uploading your photos and scanning their EXIF locations under the guise of "needing all access".
And as we found out in existing topic, the better privacy preserving APIs exist, Nextcloud just doesn't want to use them.
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But, I want that. With all the responsibilities that come with that.
Why can't I grant an app that permission? If Google discovers that an app with that permission is abusing what they are doing with that permission, then revoke their developer account! Delete the app from existing phones and inform the users that the developers could not be trusted! App store death penalty!
It's difficult to understand why there is any other reason other than maintaining their privleged position on the device to deny users this ability. Put a persistent notification in the status tray: "These apps have full access:", etc.
Maybe there's a middle ground between "apps can't do this" and "uploading all your data to the developers without a permissions dialog or a popup"? Could we maybe design a system where this permission requires opt in consent like every other feature on Android? Third party apps access to the feature is the issue here.