Google did eventually fix the permission granting system on Android but for a long time you had to more or less…

Google did eventually fix the permission granting system on Android but for a long time you had to more or less agree to everything before you could use a typical app.

Naturally Facebook and others took full advantage of Android’s permissiveness to vacuum up all the information they could from people’s phones. I was quite vocal about this garbage policy at the time and I am happy that Google belatedly followed Apple’s lead in user security.

The delay however was a disaster for users of the Facebook app. Google like other evil corps has too often taken the side of intrusion and surveillance instead of defending the rights of Android and web users.