'Irrevocable' privileges of Google Play services misrepresented about privacyguides.org HOT 6 CLOSED

Google Play Services has irrevocable privileges

This is a factual statement. It requires Phone, SMS, and Storage, each with sub-permissions for you to be able use your phone like normal. Otherwise, you break the system functionality and it cannot work as intended, and will annoy you to reapply the settings.

In edition, there are lots of trackers, as shown by Exodus.

The Phone is required to:

• modify phone state
• read call log
• directly call phone numbers
• reroute outgoing calls
• read phone status and identity
• write call log
• directly call any phone numbers
• add voicemail

The SMS is required to:

• send SMS messages
• read your text messages (SMS or MMS)
• receive text messages (MMS)
• receive text messages (SMS)

The Storage is required to:

• read the contents of your USB storage
• modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

from privacyguides.org.

Otherwise, you break the system functionality and it cannot work as intended, and will annoy you to reapply the settings.

That does not matter. There is a difference between 'can break functionality' and 'irrevocable'.

from privacyguides.org.

To revoke a permission e.g. Phone you would need to reapply it anyway to use some features.

from privacyguides.org.

To revoke a permission e.g. Phone you would need to reapply it anyway to use some features.

But this does not mean that the article has to falsely say that those permissions (e.g. SMS, Storage, Phone) are "irrevocable".

from privacyguides.org.

It's a technical statement: you can remove them but you will be forced to reapply them later, so it's moot.

from privacyguides.org.

you can remove them but you will be forced to reapply them later, so it's moot.

That has nothing to do with this article/blog falsely claiming that 'Google Play Services, which has irrevocable privileges to access your files, contacts storage, call logs, SMS messages, location, camera, microphone, hardware identifiers, and so on.' (Note that everything stated is revocable except access to hardware identifiers and Location)

from privacyguides.org.