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gala8y on Dec 6, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Popular Flashlight App has been secretly sharing y...

>However, it should be that an app asks for permissions and as a user I can tick or untick each individual permission.

This ticking/unticking just recently got much easier with XPrivacy app. It still needs root to install the Xposed framework.

[0] https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacy#xprivacy

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=biz.bokhorst.x...

[2] http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2320783

Edit: I see Groxx already posted about XPrivacy two hours ago.

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