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ShreyansShah

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Zombie smasher looked fun until I saw what permissions it wanted granting to install. Why does it need access to music and photo libraries and phone dialer?
dont know why it need access to dialer ( may be it requires just the dialing pad)
But look at us, how much thinkful n cautious we have become while using WP, while a mass people out there using Android, where a normal painting app or a dictionary requires complete access to network, phonebook, Facebook, messaging, everything, ans people grant it.
 

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dont know why it need access to dialer ( may be it requires just the dialing pad)
But look at us, how much thinkful n cautious we have become while using WP, while a mass people out there using Android, where a normal painting app or a dictionary requires complete access to network, phonebook, Facebook, messaging, everything, ans people grant it.

People grant it because they are stupid; if people stop tolerating this Data Mining of private information, companies that want to make legitimate money from their apps would stop this practice.
Microsoft is no better unfortunately despite their claims of privacy protections just look at the access some of their apps want that has nothing to do with their function.

This is an interesting and Important topic so I created a thread for it here http://forums.windowscentral.com/windows-phone-8/270198-apps-requiring-access-unrelated-stuff.html so we don't hijack this thread with unrelated discussion.
 

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