[dheera]

At one point WeChat wouldn't permit logging in without location permissions. RoboRock vacuum cleaners also must be set up using an app that requires GPS permissions, and they send your GPS and Wi-Fi passwords and things to their server. It's sad, but they make one of best actual vacuums.

I'm not sure if that's the case still but I've run into several other apps that do similar things. It's pretty widespread.

In any case, it's awesome to have an OS that can make apps think they got permissions and just shove fake data at them.