Large number of applications installed on our mobiles with operating system Androidhave permissions granted by the user to access photos, videos, camera, microphone, location data, Google account information and endless of data more. These permissions are necessary for the application to work properly and offer its services in a personalized way.But Are all users willing to give up this data? Isn't there a system in which each one could decide what makes these tools accessible and what not? Google thinks so, and appears to be working on it.
The information comes from the medium Bloomberg, who ensures that GoogleIt would be working on a system similar to that already seen in iOS, where users can establish detailed control of the permissions they give to the applications they install on their terminals. A feature that is not completely new, but that many would appreciate. Because Google offered, perhaps more as a bug than a feature, to do this to users with root or superuser access in terminals with ROMS or versions of Android cooked or customized. In other words, a loose end that allowed more advanced users to decide what installed applications could access.
In this way, and without any details being confirmed, presumably users could cancel, for example, the permission to the location of a photography application In this way the tool would never collect geolocation data or the place where they have been taken, but the user would make sure that that application does not know at any time where it is currently. And so on with another large number of possibilities ranging from access to the camera to take pictures or videos, to much more detailspersonal and sensitive data such as user data, terminal information, and much more
This information comes a few days after learning that Google intends to introduce the operating system Android M in its next event for developers Google I/O that will take place at the end of this month of May.Something that would fit very well and that would put the spotlight on this new version of Android if it allowed users to consciously choose all these issues about the applications that are installed . Of course, it is not yet known to what degree they could be configured or if it would be feasible in all cases due to technical issues and the operation of the applications.
Permissions are one of the keys to applications, without which they could not function. Limiting their operation could worsen the user experience of many of them, and even make some of them useless. However, it would put much more value on the user by allowing them toactively manage your privacy and security For now we will have to wait until the end of May to see if Google confirms this new issue within the framework of Android M, or if you do it before officially.We'll be alert.
