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title: "Social security app would like to change your system setting"
date: 2021-05-25T17:33:23+07:00
categories: [ app ]
tags: [ system, setting ]
---

So I was asked to install an app to handle some social security and insurance
information (no don't ask me I don't even know what that's supposed to mean, or
what it's supposed to do).  The app asks for permissions to change system
setting when I click on something that looks like notification button.  I
suspect they intended to ask for push notification permission, but like, wow,
so security, such suspicious.  On top of that, it's proprietary with explicit
terms about not modifying or reverse-engineering it.

I wish FSFE's [Public Money, Public Code](https://publiccode.eu/) movement were
a global movement and not just for Europe.