I've considered three different apps today on the Market. All three are
basically news-oriented (Motor Trend, Time, and MSNBC). They are also
all associated with something called the "Zumobi Network". Anyway, I
declined to install any of them because they were requesting a privilege
labeled "Phone Calls: Read phone state and identity".
I can't think of a single reason why an app that's going to display news
articles from an internet connection needs to access my phone data. The
only thing I could think of was that it could harvest my phone number
and upload it somewhere, and I could end up getting phone calls or text
messages. With my pay-per-call/text phone plan that's the last thing I need!
Can anyone tell me if there's anything I'm missing about granting this
privilege? Is there any reason to require it other than just plain snooping?
Doug Gordon
GHCS Software
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