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Phones and permissions

Phones and permissions

Posted Jun 7, 2011 20:47 UTC (Tue) by docwhat (subscriber, #40373)
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I would be willing to hold off on spoofing that info until a generic API in Android could be added to collect information about the hand-held in a private way.

I'd imagine something like a blob of pre-generated data including the device info, hardware type, a unique user identifier, os version, etc. that could be given to developers for tracking trends, etc.

But asking for the IMEI, IMSI, etc. seems like a ridiculous breach of privacy.


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