Do you mean Secrets by Brandon Stecklein? That is not a Google app. It uses
Coarse Location and Internet permissions; if it can access email or SMS
messages that would he a problem. Are you saying that it can?

On Jul 26, 2010 1:27 PM, "sharedwd" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The user will see when installing an app that it can access their SMS
>> messages, and there is no way for the application to get to them without
>> this being reported.
>> Dianne Hackborn
>> Android framework engineer
>> [email protected]
>
> Except, as in one case with the Google app "Secrets" and many others,
> if the app is built for Android OS earlier than 1.6 (or 1.5?). For
> example, I'm running 2.1-update1 on a Motorola Droid, and the only way
> I see that Secrets also has Network communication and Phone State/
> Identity permissions is run a permissions app like aSpotCat. The
> Market does not tell me Secrets has those two permissions assigned to
> it, even if it doesn't utilize them.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Jim
>
> On Jun 25, 3:31 pm, TreKing <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Dan Hein <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Is Google doing ANY policing of applications on Android Market?
>>
>> It seems so, but extremely quietly - hell, they apparently don't even
tell
>> the developers whom they pull from the Market WHY they were pulled.
>>
>> Also, see this post:
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/06/exercising-our-remote-...
>>
>>
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