The app can do all that, plus - if permitted - track the phone’s real world physical location, harvest the phone owner’s full contact list, turn on their microphone and camera, and browse their camera photograph history.

I think if more people understood that, we would see a lot less app usage.

All those permissions have good and worthwhile uses, but they’re not only being used in those good and worthwhile ways.

Edit: My shower thought: this must be some kind of “Golden Age” for hit men. I bet they spend their workday on all the murder with barely any on the detective work. I bet their profit-to-cost is sky high in the age of the smart phone.