Mexican Loan Apps, Extortion, and the Google Play Store
Tangentially related to part of the text in the article :  A lot of these and other apps ask you to share documents, camera, mic, gps, and other access from your phone  . The problem is that several of those wont work if you reject that access. Even worse, Mexican government passed a law that made it compulsory to monitor your GPS position  for Banks and other money related companies, so doing relatively common bank transactions require you to lose your privacy.<p>Given these blatant privacy violations, I wish mobiles had the option to "mock" data for those sensors.  Share files? Sure, give access to a jail like bkank file system. Share mic? Sure, give access to a white noise generated stream,  same with video/camera.  Share gps? Give some mock location, etc.<p>That's what a privacy enabled device would do.<p>I wonder why hasn't this even been implemented at the browser level.