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Permission controls are a bandaid as someone else wrote.

Let's use the location services example.

So some communications app asks me for permission. Do I grant it? Well, as an unsophisticated user, maybe it wants this info to optimize the quality of my connection in some way. So maybe I ought to give it permission?

Instead, maybe it's going to broadcast my coordinates to everyone else on the call which is not OK in general.



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