[tgsovlerkhgsel]

> often in horrific ways

Let me guess, loan shark apps, or is there something even worse that I wasn't aware of?

(Essentially ransomware that people "voluntarily" install in order to get a predatory loan, often without knowing how it actually operates. If they fail to pay, not only is their phone locked, but the data from it is used to threaten/extort them, from threatening to send their nudes to their contacts to death threats to relatives identified from the data - https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/beware-preda...)

[izacus]

Pretty much every game and every social media app asked for full storage access under the guise of "downloading game files" or "allowing our photo picker to work".

Then they got free access to all your photos and their location data and all your documents and downloads. Yes, including those banking statements downloaded as PDFs. Forever. In background. Whenever.

That's the access Nextcloud demands instead of using the API where YOU choose what it can read.

[spookie]

Hell, you don't need to go that far.

Some apps suspiciously send data they have no business in about your phone, like Outlook. It's crazy.

[robotnikman]

Wow, that sounds dystopic as hell...