Tripadvisor app for android - access to camera?
May 1, 2014 | 6:06 pm
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Tripadvisor app for android - access to camera?
I have used the Tripadvisor app for several years. It needs updating on my phone. However, one of the "permissions" concerns me. The update tells me there is a "new" permission, one for "Camera to take pictures and videos". This causes me concern. Why do they need to access the camera? What are they doing with the camera?
The app is inactive until I update - and I'm not updating it until I understand this part of the update.
Hope you all have some suggestions.
The app is inactive until I update - and I'm not updating it until I understand this part of the update.
Hope you all have some suggestions.
May 1, 2014 | 7:24 pm
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I have used the Tripadvisor app for several years. It needs updating on my phone. However, one of the "permissions" concerns me. The update tells me there is a "new" permission, one for "Camera to take pictures and videos". This causes me concern. Why do they need to access the camera? What are they doing with the camera?
The app is inactive until I update - and I'm not updating it until I understand this part of the update.
Hope you all have some suggestions.
The app is inactive until I update - and I'm not updating it until I understand this part of the update.
Hope you all have some suggestions.
May 3, 2014 | 8:41 am
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In the case of Tripadvisor I went ahead and updated because I'm not too concerned about it. But there are lots of apps I refuse to install (or update if it was a change in permissions) because of stuff like wanting access to my camera and microphone.
May 4, 2014 | 9:11 am
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I'm sure that's the intended reason. But the bothersome thing about apps is that permissions are blanket. If an app has permission to do something it can do it at any time, whether you are aware and want it to or not.
In the case of Tripadvisor I went ahead and updated because I'm not too concerned about it. But there are lots of apps I refuse to install (or update if it was a change in permissions) because of stuff like wanting access to my camera and microphone.
In the case of Tripadvisor I went ahead and updated because I'm not too concerned about it. But there are lots of apps I refuse to install (or update if it was a change in permissions) because of stuff like wanting access to my camera and microphone.
In many cases, the vendor explains below the app description why it needs permissions.