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by supriyo-biswas 1160 days ago
The app could also detect the fake text based on general testing (after all, there's gonna be only so many variations of "Biggus Dickus") and refuse to dispense the functionality in question.
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Hence the suggested rule that blocking functionality based on this access should be an app store violation.
The OS could add an option to automatically generate realistic mock data. It could be tuned based on the distribution of names in the location that is revealed to the app (whether that is the real location or a mocked one).