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How Google Tracks and Scans Everything on Your Android Device (www.howtogeek.com)
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They have a hidden app with every permission enabled already and you can't change that.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

You can see the permissions section is greyed out, and the app has default access to every sensor (including my microphone, call logs, body sensors, camera, and nearby devices) and data point available. You can't revoke any of these. Location is allowed all the time and I can see that it accesses my location every couple of minutes.