That awesome “App “Ops” feature that appeared on Android 4.3 is now gone. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has found that Google removed the feature because it was “put there accidentally and wasn’t supposed to be part of Android 4.3. The feature allowed users to “install apps while preventing the app from collecting sensitive data like the user’s location or address book,” an incredibly safe and useful feature.
The EFF says that Android should bring back the feature, as well as introduce the capability to let users disable network access for applications that clearly don’t need it, like flashlight apps, wallpapers, UI tweaks, and some games. The Foundation urges users not to update to Android 4.4.2, despite the fact that the update includes security enhancements and bug fixes.
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