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Re: Why would Pandora need access to my personal info, contact data, phone state and
So, as far as why Pandora wants to access all those things:
Contacts - Pandora allows you to share your stations with your contacts
Phone state - It has to be able to check and see if a call is coming in or active to know that it needs to pause the audio.
Personal Info - As was mentioned already, if you were to sign up for an account through the app you are giving your personal info. Also, when you log in you are giving some personal info. Lastly, the app gives you the ability to purchase tracks that you like, so again you will be giving personal info to purchase...
Something to keep in mind - when you get the permissions warnings when installing an app, that is a list of things that the app MAY do, based on the parts of the SDK that are used to build the program. It's like all of the 3rd party keyboards saying it may store passwords or other personal info.
And as far as WinMo apps not being as "intrusive"... WinMo just doesn't warn you like Android does... I guarantee there's WinMo apps that are just as, if not more, intrusive than their Android equivalents...
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