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by Iknown0thing 2668 days ago
Like with tobacco may be privacy invading permissions need to be regulated a bit. May be a clear warning on what happens with your data will make consumers think a little bit more about prompts to handover your data.

Also, it might be interesting to see if certain permissions can have parental control. That is you need to be with your parent/guardian to allow certain data access.

Might be great to make it slightly difficult to gain sensitive permissions for everyone. Requiring to input your password/pin at the permission box. We already has these on desktop computers where you need to be able to input your password for admin access to apps. This may not deter companies to ask for permissions, but my hypothesis is that it will show up in their conversion funnels and eventually they will stop asking for blanket permissions to all your data.