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Well Scott, if no one has privacy, I'm going to need to see your bank statements, medical records, investment portfolio, and will need unrestricted 24 hour access to the cameras inside your home. And there will be software installed on your mobile & desktop devices that allows anyone to see what you do online.
I just uninstalled 3 apps that activated my camera without permission.
Why does a weather app need a camera?
What the point of permissions if apps can just do anything?
Your case showed that the permission system is flawed, since it allowed camera access without having asked for your permission.
Afaik the older the operating system, you'll have more slip troughs.
Ironically Google owns both, the Play Store and Android.
Besides making the rules for app development, it has to make sure the permission system doesn't let malicious developers make a party on your phone, running their own operating system.
It's like the team app developing should know that team os security is doing and vice versa.
They are catching up, but It's astonishing how well they have been failing at this task.