The Nextcloud News app now wants location access to automatically switch between day and night themes. I just about fell off my chair when the permission request came up after I installed the latest update.
I'm not assuming evil intent here, but it is a really good example of the mindset currently taking hold in regards to privacy. Location access is one of the most invasive permissions; not quite up with SMS access, but close. To use it for something this trivial shouldn't even cross our minds, and yet this seems to have become the new normal. Most people wouldn't even think twice about it, and that's what's so scary.
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