So I'm on my phone the other day, just killing time surfing the internet, checking the same five websites for the 20th time that day. "Maybe I should see if there's a cool game to download," I says to myself. So I go to the android play store, find a (free) game to download and hit install.
As you all know, the app asks for certain permissions before it will allow you to install it. Being the paranoid conspiracy theorist that I am, I always check out the list of permissions that I'm allowing the app access to. The usual things are there-access to the internet, contacts and certain settings-but what stood out was a permission granting access to photos, video and media files on my device.
The fuck?
I can't figure out for the life of me why Candy Crack Saga, Angry Birds or any game needs access to my selfies and cat pictures. Intrigued, I look up other apps-games, karaoke and even notepad apps that don't have a fucking thing to do with photos or videos-they all want permission to use/view my media files in order to play their shit game or use their program! Fuck that!
It's bad enough that creepy ass Facebook/big brother gov't is monitoring our every conversation/transaction without me willingly allowing my pictures to be accessed by some douchebag programmer/hacker/comic-con attendee out in cyberspace.
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