With Android 4.3, Google has made it possible for the user to precisely set the access permissions for each application. However, the Mountain View company said it was not planned to give this control to the user, the group citing an experiment. With Android 4.4.2, these settings have been removed, Google pointing a software instability.
This is a change that went relatively unnoticed until the Electronic Frontier Foundation is involved. Last Thursday, the NGO has published an article in which it lamented the removal of a feature quite ambitious , called " operation of applications " (App Ops ) . Appeared this summer with the 4.3 version of Android, it was withdrawn on December 9 with the release of Android 4.4.2 .
This feature was very interesting. In fact, it left to the user to define itself the access rights of each software about to be installed. Several adjustments were proposed: she has the right to know the geolocation of the user, via the terminal? Can access the contacts ? Read the call log ? Use the vibrator mobile ? Publish notifications?
In this way, the owner of the Android device could handle finely permissions of each application and ensure that third parties can access information stored on the phone . But this App Ops should not be released , according to Google. This is an experimental program that was not intended to be generalized to the general public phones .
This is a change that went relatively unnoticed until the Electronic Frontier Foundation is involved. Last Thursday, the NGO has published an article in which it lamented the removal of a feature quite ambitious , called " operation of applications " (App Ops ) . Appeared this summer with the 4.3 version of Android, it was withdrawn on December 9 with the release of Android 4.4.2 .
This feature was very interesting. In fact, it left to the user to define itself the access rights of each software about to be installed. Several adjustments were proposed: she has the right to know the geolocation of the user, via the terminal? Can access the contacts ? Read the call log ? Use the vibrator mobile ? Publish notifications?
In this way, the owner of the Android device could handle finely permissions of each application and ensure that third parties can access information stored on the phone . But this App Ops should not be released , according to Google. This is an experimental program that was not intended to be generalized to the general public phones .
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