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Unfortunately it's too easy for people just to hit the OK button at install time without thinking about it/realising what they are agreeing too. Whilst the user has to take some responsibility for this, maybe it would be more obvious if the system prompted the user the first time an application tries to use some permission. Then they would see the context in which, e.g., their location is accessed.


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