App: -/4
Score: 0
Lives: 3 lives left
Best: --

Privacy Leak

Four new apps, and every one wants everything. Set each permission to what the app really needs before your data walks out the door.

Privacy Leak

Four chapters, four new apps for the gang: a sticker editor, a weather app, bike navigation and a video-call app. Every one opens asking for the maximum: all your photos, precise location always, every contact, tracking. Read what you actually want the app to do, then set each permission to the least that job needs.

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Privacy

How to play

Read the job. Each app comes with what you want it to do, like "show the weather where you are" or "video call Grandma".
Dial it down. Every permission starts at the maximum. Pick the least it needs: Don't allow, approximate or precise location, only while using, selected contacts or photos.
Install. Each setting is marked just right, a leak (too much) or a broken feature (too little), with the reason.
Score. 100 per setting just right, +100 for a perfect app. An app that leaks costs a life: 3 lives.

Quick tips

Start from the job. Read what you want the app to do first. Any permission that job doesn't use should be off.
Approximate is often enough. Weather and nearby shops only need your area. Precise location is for turn-by-turn directions.
Only while using. Most apps never need your location, camera or mic when they're closed.
Pick, don't hand over. Selected photos and selected contacts give an app what it needs without your whole camera roll or address book.
Don't break what you need. A video call needs camera and mic, and a messaging app needs background data to ring when it's closed.