Auditing App Permissions

Lesson 5

Human Handbook

Choose and check one permission against a feature you actually need, without assuming it controls every data route.

Access to a Feature Is a Specific Grant

An app may ask to use a microphone, camera, photo selection, contacts or device location. The operating system mediates protected capabilities, while the app may also receive information you type or that its service already holds.

A permission list is therefore not a complete inventory of personal data. Denying location access does not erase a delivery address or stop every inference from an internet connection.

Lesson 5

Human Handbook