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by AstralStorm 2906 days ago
Android has capability control tied to certain kinds of specific objects such as intents and binder connections. This could be extended to streams and providers (like the one used to read email) and objects created from such streams. Would require some internal API change and to document the change in permissions.

The new permission would mean the app is allowed to send contacts or emails read from database over the network.