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Installed a snow emergency parking app published by my city. My android phone warned me that it asks for dangerous permissions. Namely action_boot_completed, get_accounts. It seems strange that a simple app about snow plowing schedules would need any of these. I'm fairly new to android but I have installed a bunch of apps and have never been warned like this. The app is https://www.stpaul.gov/departments/public-works/street-maintenance/snow-emergency-information/saint-paul-winter-snow

I checked out http://lifehacker.com/5991099/why-does-this-android-app-need-so-many-permissions and the upshot of articles like this is: track each permission to an actual feature of the app. This app doesn't seem to have a feature that would require access to accounts. My question is: how to proceed? a

a) take it under advisement and use the app. b

b) avoid this app

c) make a scene, contact the city and demand answers.

I'm asking because I truly don't know if this is just something we live with? are these warnings so common that I will become enured to them?

Installed a snow emergency parking app published by my city. My android phone warned me that it asks for dangerous permissions. Namely action_boot_completed, get_accounts. It seems strange that a simple app about snow plowing schedules would need any of these. I'm fairly new to android but I have installed a bunch of apps and have never been warned like this. The app is https://www.stpaul.gov/departments/public-works/street-maintenance/snow-emergency-information/saint-paul-winter-snow

I checked out http://lifehacker.com/5991099/why-does-this-android-app-need-so-many-permissions and the upshot of articles like this is: track each permission to an actual feature of the app. This app doesn't seem to have a feature that would require access to accounts. My question is: how to proceed? a) take it under advisement and use the app. b) avoid this app

c) make a scene, contact the city and demand answers.

I'm asking because I truly don't know if this is just something we live with? are these warnings so common that I will become enured to them?

Installed a snow emergency parking app published by my city. My android phone warned me that it asks for dangerous permissions. Namely action_boot_completed, get_accounts. It seems strange that a simple app about snow plowing schedules would need any of these. I'm fairly new to android but I have installed a bunch of apps and have never been warned like this. The app is https://www.stpaul.gov/departments/public-works/street-maintenance/snow-emergency-information/saint-paul-winter-snow

I checked out http://lifehacker.com/5991099/why-does-this-android-app-need-so-many-permissions and the upshot of articles like this is: track each permission to an actual feature of the app. This app doesn't seem to have a feature that would require access to accounts. My question is: how to proceed?

a) take it under advisement and use the app.

b) avoid this app

c) make a scene, contact the city and demand answers.

I'm asking because I truly don't know if this is just something we live with? are these warnings so common that I will become enured to them?

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Android app permission warning: how serious?

Installed a snow emergency parking app published by my city. My android phone warned me that it asks for dangerous permissions. Namely action_boot_completed, get_accounts. It seems strange that a simple app about snow plowing schedules would need any of these. I'm fairly new to android but I have installed a bunch of apps and have never been warned like this. The app is https://www.stpaul.gov/departments/public-works/street-maintenance/snow-emergency-information/saint-paul-winter-snow

I checked out http://lifehacker.com/5991099/why-does-this-android-app-need-so-many-permissions and the upshot of articles like this is: track each permission to an actual feature of the app. This app doesn't seem to have a feature that would require access to accounts. My question is: how to proceed? a) take it under advisement and use the app. b) avoid this app

c) make a scene, contact the city and demand answers.

I'm asking because I truly don't know if this is just something we live with? are these warnings so common that I will become enured to them?