Just read the permissions of their app, & know why it’s untrustworthy.

• take picturs and videos
• record audio ( these may be a problem, if they can do it when you don’t know it’s happening )
• advertising ID permission
• ready sync settings
• run foreground service
• run at startup
• read user selected image and video files from shared storage ( this isn’t the problem: this is The Proper Way )
• read badge notifications
• view network connections
• prevent tablet from sleeping
• access to AdId API ( that’s ad id, not adLd )
• view Wi-Fi connections
• use fingerprint hardware
• show notifications
• receive data from internet
• install shortcuts
• read Google service configuration
• read audio files from shared storage ( these ARE the problem: they can upload ANY audio/video/image file they can find, up to them, & you’ve “agreed”, … so they could “legally” harvest personal-images/videos from all app-user’s phones, & you’d have no legal basis to sue them )
• read video files from shared storage
• read image files from shared storage
• control vibration
• Google Play billing service
• toggle sync on and off
• detect screen captures of app windows
• have full network access
• use biometric hardware
• Play Install Referrer API
• change your audio settings
• run foreground service with the type “dataSync”

TBH, I’m astonished they didn’t require Contacts permission, which apparently also grants the right to upload-to-them all one’s messages ( made me sick, when I found that out ).

DO NOT INSTALL UNTRUSTWORTHY APPS.

Apps should have ONLY the honestly-required permissions, NOT permissions which gaslight about valuing/protecting/serving the user.

No more ruled-by-machiavellian-clowns.

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