Not likely to happen with Apple iPhones, apps must go through a screening process by Apple and are rejected if they violate the guidelines. On Android phones there is little if any restriction.
If it is a Pixel phone, the Android OS is adhered to strictly. With the other manufacturers (Samsung, LG, Motorola, etc.), all bets are off.
That’s app Review, which is different, but may catch this sort of thing....
This report is the more once you grant an app permission, for any reason it keeps those permissions indefinitely unless you manually go into the global settings firm and turn them off..
Android behaves the same way, once permission has been granted.
They are suggesting that there be some sort of reaffirmation of permission to use , rather than just a one time thing.
Not really worried. If they ever do that to Android phones, they’re going to get all sorts of pictures of the inside of my pocket.
Not a loophole. Nothing sensational here. The problem is that the USER doesn’t think of things like this, and so doesn’t think about revoking the app’s permission after granting it.
Apple is not a big evil corporation showing illicit pictures of you to strangers.
Is there any testing done of these apps? Should Apple do it? Should independent organizations do it? (This one did, and that’s the solution for the problem.)