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How about make apps show us the data they collect and if they dont they dont get access to the store. Google has an pretty awesome page that lists all that crap they collect on you and you can delete it from there.

On the google store site.. when browsing apps, there should be a tab on every app page, where i can see a sample of what it collects and a declaration of what it does with that data.

after installing the app, in the app manager, i should get a tab where i can see what its grabbing from me.

right now we got strangers going into our bedrooms borrowing something they wont tell us what it is.

and really permissions dont help a lot when it comes to this. Yeah my bookmark dup cleaner has to access my bookmarks to clean.. so i give it the permission, but does it keep them? does it sell them? i dont know permissions arent that detailed. if there was a privacy tab that i could check...then i would know.

People hide nanny cams to watch the nanny. Its because they gave her permission to have access to the house and kid and such.. the cam is like my privacy tab. it makes sure she doesnt abuse the permissions. We KNOW she needs access to the house and kid to do her job.. we just dont want the kid molested. well I dont want my data molested.. So google please give me an app nanny cam.




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