Android 6 and up will start stripping unused apps’ permissions

Ars Technica
By Ron AmadeoSep 17, 2021, 2:03 pm168 pts
Enlarge / Android 6.0 Marshmallow is getting a spiffy new feature. (credit: Ron Amadeo) Google is coming for your unused Android crapware. The company announced Friday that it will backport an Android 11 privacy feature—auto-resetting app permissions—to Android 6. Auto-resetting app permissions were…

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