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Niantic Promises Fix for Aggressive Pokemon Go Permissions
2016-07-12 21:04:20| PC Magazine Security Product Guide
Pokemon Go on iOS "erroneously requests full access permission for the user's Google account," Niantic acknowledged.
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Android apps now ask for over 200 kinds of permissions: Pew Research
2015-11-12 17:13:08| Extremetech
If you've got Android, you know it shows you a list of permissions an app wants you to accept during installation -- and often, it seems like the app wants permission to do an awful lot of things.
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Will Government Spectrum Permissions Throttle 4G Evolution to 5G Wireless?
2015-10-01 19:51:41| Wireless - Topix.net
To try to justify mandating Title II utility regulation of broadband and the blocking of the Comcast-Time Warner acquisition, the Administration and FCC had to gerrymander broadband definitions to reach their political goal that wireless broadband service not be considered an official competitor to wireline broadband service. Never mind the obvious: that the nearly three quarters of Americans who use a smartphone know that one can functionally do most everything one wants on a mobile smartphone/tablet/laptop that one can do on a wireline connection.
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Google's Android Permissions Get Granular
2015-06-04 20:28:05| TechNewsWorld
Google appears to be heeding warnings of security experts who say Android users need better control over what apps do with information from their phones. At I/O, its worldwide shindig for developers held last week, the company announced that the next version of its mobile operating system, Android M, would take a more granular approach to permissions for data requested by apps.
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Uber Tweaks Privacy Policy, Asks for Background Permissions
2015-05-31 06:03:33| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
Uber has slimmed down its privacy policy to make it a bit more understandable. It's also going to start asking for a few more permissions on your smartphone (for extra features).
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