alt Hacker NewsIf you don't give the app any permissions, it doesn't spy on you either.
It doesn't have any more information than the info you give it to buy the tickets in the first place.
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SoftTalker • yesterday at 5:27 PM
It does when the ticket app demands Location access "to protect your security"
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jjulius • yesterday at 5:27 PM
>If you don't give the app any permissions, it doesn't spy on you either.
We're talking about an 81 year-old who has never had a smartphone before and you're starting the sentence with "if"? And that's just that app, not the phone itself or anything else that someone brand new to, and ignorant towards, this ecosystem is going to encounter and not know what to do with.
M95D • yesterday at 5:46 PM
> If you don't give the app any permissions, it doesn't spy on you either.
What about the other apps? What about the phone itself?
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> It doesn't have any more information than the info you give it to buy the tickets in the first place.
Many apps ask for permission to use your GPS position and other sensor data, even though they don't need it. Most non-technical people don't understand what that means and will just allow it.