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Is "Phone Calls" Permission Necessary? #57

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GoogleCodeExporter opened this issue Mar 14, 2015 · 2 comments
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Is "Phone Calls" Permission Necessary? #57

GoogleCodeExporter opened this issue Mar 14, 2015 · 2 comments
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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Visit the marketplace at 
https://market.android.com/details?id=org.ttrssreader
2. View permissions

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The "phone calls" permission is listed which allows the app to determine the 
phone number of a device, serial-number of a device, whether a call is active, 
and the remote-phone-number of the call.  I expected that ttrss-reader wouldn't 
actually need that information to operate.

Is that permission actually required, what is it used for? If it's not needed, 
can it be eliminated from the list?

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.9.3, information gleaned from the marketplace

Please provide any additional information below.
One of the reasons I run my own tt-rss instance is to maintain the privacy of 
my feedlist, and I'm likewise interested in the permissions requirements of 
apps that I install on my device.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by m...@nyu.edu on 25 Mar 2011 at 7:15
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Hi,

the permission was used ti store the IMEI of phones when people entered their 
mail-address as a "Donators Mail-Address" a while back when I provided some 
features only for donators. The mail-address was appended and the complete 
String was hashed and the hash was sent to my server to check it against a list 
of known hashes.

Since I removed the limitations due to a lack of interest in the features by 
the users this permission is no longer required nor used anywhere in the 
application and will be removed with the next update.

Greetings,
nils

Original comment by nils.braden on 26 Mar 2011 at 12:16

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Original comment by nils.braden on 10 Apr 2011 at 12:40

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