In browsing apps on the Google Play Store, it is now much more difficult to notice whether an app has, for example, access only to your location, or access to your location and full internet access. These are hugely different with regards to privacy. This seems to go blatantly against "Don't be evil", and I wonder how such a change made it through Google's supposedly rigorous mechanisms to prevent corporate evil.
We want more than ever to be able to revoke app permissions.
Simplified permissions on Google Play
https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/6014972?hl=en
Note: These days, apps typically access the Internet, so network communication permissions including the “full Internet access” permission have been moved out of the primary permissions screen.
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