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by Nicolas___ 5281 days ago
- read SMS or MMS Allows application to read SMS messages stored on your device or SIM card. Malicious applications may read your confidential messages.

- receive SMS Allows application to receive and process SMS messages. Malicious applications may monitor your messages or delete them without showing them to you.

- read contact data Allows an application to read all of the contact (address) data stored on your device. Malicious applications can use this to send your data to other people.

- read phone state and identity Allows the application to access the phone features of the device. An application with this permission can determine the phone number and serial number of this phone, whether a call is active, the number that call is connected to and the like.

What is the point of having these privileges, in a trivia app ?