Comment by hobarrera

It's already past time that Android had (out-of-the-box) a "don't grant access but make the application think I did"-checkbox.

Essentially, showing fake data to the app if you pick this (eg: no photos, fake contacts, etc).

AFAIK, there are some android apps (and cyanogen) that add this features, but it really needs to be worked on upstream.

This is doubly useful for google, since they can always keep their own apps as "superprivilidged" on google-sponsored phones.