App Permissions: can anyone Explain?

[teckris]

hello everyone... i recently noticed even Battery apps requests Photos and Video Library Permission. what does it mean?
does the app has the access to our Photos and upload to somewhere the developer wants??

 

[foxbat121]

Technically, yes.
If this is an ad supported free app, these permissions are required in order for the ad control to function.

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[teckris]

Technically, yes.
If this is an ad supported free app, these permissions are required in order for the ad control to function.

Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

Will we know which pics it is accessing?? anything reported to user?

 

[Jas00555]

Its not that they WILL be accessing your pictures, but if there's a slight chance that an app might, potentially, access it, they have to put that there.

 

[foxbat121]

Will we know which pics it is accessing?? anything reported to user?

No since you already gave permission beforehand.

 

[jsooney]

I wonder about stuff like that too. I don't get why a lot of apps want access to the camera, microphone, phone dialer, maps, music library etc. I generally won't install apps that want all that but it does limit your choices.

 

[jay64]

bs - not needed for a damn battery app - msft demands developer require location services in this case and in other cases "free" means data mining your phone via permissions that should not be required. They even do it on paid apps - ridiculous. then they tell you that you control permissions - yah , right but if you exercise that control you can't even download the app. some choice. I know younger folks often think privacy is a privilege but it is actually a right.