Google to ban financial lending apps from accessing user photos, contacts
This feels like treating one particularly visible symptom of the problem instead of fixing the actual problem. What Google should do instead is prevent apps from refusing to work or disabling unrelated functionality just because some permissions are denied (e.g., if you deny your banking app permission to access your camera, everything but mobile check deposit should still have to work). They should use a two-pronged approach to do so:<p>1. Make that a rule in the Play Store and ban apps that violate it<p>2. Make Android present convincing fake data to apps when permissions are denied