The truly rotten egg here is Android (and Google by extension).
Why a user cannot elect to nominally provide permissions to an app, but restrict the content of different grants (so an app may see an empty phone book by default or an empty Pictures folder) is beyond me. It borders on abusive.
Why a user cannot elect to nominally provide permissions to an app, but restrict the content of different grants (so an app may see an empty phone book by default or an empty Pictures folder) is beyond me. It borders on abusive.