alt Hacker NewsIt would break exactly 0 apps because none of the apps should be using this API to access your private data and phone call audio.
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TeMPOraL • today at 9:47 AM
Why? What other APIs should my apps (or the apps I explicitly want to authorize for this purpose) use to access my private data and my phone call audio?
subscribed • today at 1:16 PM
So what official API call recorder app can use?
So why do Google Play Services, etc. have full privileged access to a phone, including private data and phone call audio, but the user doesn't?
It is tech feudalism - you don't own anything anymore, you just get to live on the digital land of a bunch of ~trillion dollar companies.
At least, that is the goal.
IMO either everyone gets access at the user's discretion or Google has to sandbox their own GMS services as well.