Facebook intentionally engineered methods to access user's call history on Android without requiring permissions dialog


We also need app sandboxing that actually works. I hope tech companies get a kick in the nuts from abusing our data for so long.

 Let's say for the sake of discussion that it changes it's mind and severely cracks down on apps that overtly or covertly track user interaction and bans them outright.
Carriers have, for quite some time now, been forcing the preinstallation of their own app store on the Android phones they've been selling. If Google clamps down, those apps will still be available in the carrier app stores available on the phones. And apps installed via those usually have their data exempted from the total data a phone uses, which means they can update more often and are even harder to notice or track.

 It is like, in the name of tracking everything people do, a perfect storm of privacy destroying business practises has taken over the tech world (reddit likely does it as well as many, if not most, others) with the end result being that the companies have not other choice but to react by saying "Yeah, so what?" or "Yes but it's no big deal."

Data is a new form of currency, Facebook and Google know this, and they both collect multiple terabytes every single day. It's overwhelmingly valuable and they'd be happy to trade that for a few billion here and there.

You can't stop them collecting the data; laws, fines or blockades are all ineffective. It's too late for that now. Just browse the web and see how many places call google fonts/google apis or analytics. Heck, even Facebook comes preinstalled on some phones, and even 'disabling' it most likely doesn't stop the data collection.
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