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CyanogenMod 12 browser can access contacts

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my1stSmartPhone

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I recently installed CM12 on my Moto G and haven't yet migrated my Outlook Contacts & Calendar items onto it yet. I am surfing the web to become familiar with the due diligence of apps permissions first. From a comment at http://www.androidcentral.com/android-permissions-privacy-security, I found that I can an apps entry in Settings allows me to see the permissions for an app. I haven't yet installed any apps, but the native browser has the permission to access my Contacts. Is this normal for browser? If I draw an analogy with my computer, I wouldn't expect Firefox to be able to delve into my Outlook contacts.

Then again, I was warned that people can freak out at permissions without understanding them. So maybe there are reasons for the browser to be able to access contacts?
 
I've 5 browsers on my phone (don't ask!), and none of them have that permission. Not saying it doesn't have a legit function, but I don't offhand know what that is. It's not needed simply to function as a browser, so the question is whether it's got something else integrated or is lazy programming?
 
Hadron said:
I've 5 browsers on my phone (don't ask!), and none of them have that permission. Not saying it doesn't have a legit function, but I don't offhand know what that is. It's not needed simply to function as a browser, so the question is whether it's got something else integrated or is lazy programming?
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I dunno. It's the native CM 12 browser.

vosg said:
Also take a look at Permission Manager.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ovmobile.appopslauncher

Permission Manager is a built-in Android function, normally not visible to the end user. This app is only a short cut to this native function. Hence it doesn't require root or anything special.
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Doesn't CyanogenMod already have that in the form of Privacy Guard?
http://www.cnet.com/news/why-android-wont-be-getting-app-ops-anytime-soon

From the web surfing so far, I am reticent to muck with permissions, so that's why I'm trying to get the rationale for the permissions of the native browser before mucking. It is, after all, the built in browser. I wouldn't expect it to have excessive permissions. And yet...it is odd that the browser can have its permissions.
 
I'm going to muss around with it first. I can find it, I just don't know how functional it is. Not intuitive for me (but that's not saying much as many things aren't intuitive for me). Hopefully, I'll have a better targeted question for the ROM forum. But I'll be careful to hopefully not make any changes that I won't remember how to undo. Worse comes to worse, I'll just re-install CM12.
 
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