Recent privacy scandal is actually just a snowflake on the tip of the iceberg!

It is 2018 and mobile apps are booming. The number of mobile apps is growing faster then mushrooms in the forrest.

​However there seems to be no regulation or laws for it at all.

​Sometimes it looks like mobile apps are asking permission for controll aspects for the mobile Phone for whatever ​they like. (not what the citizens would accept).

Permissions many times doesn't seem to even make any sense at all.
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Also it is not clear what the persmissions exactly are about....
​(there's 0% possibility to inform yourselfs)
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​​comsec.provide.badgepermission.read....      yes ofcourse... w.t.@!! ....

The users however don't seem to have any choice....
​If you ​​accept the permissions you can use the app.
​If you ​decline the permissions however... well then you can't use the app.

​This is NOT! how it should work.
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In the meantime the number of headlines are piling up about the matter. App users are done! with the way things are going at the moment... that is one thing for sure:

https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/2224173-facebook-is-de-controle-over-het-eigen-platform-kwijtgeraakt.html
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​https://finance.yahoo.com/news/zuck-apologizes-cambridge-analytica-scandal-145721682.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mark-zuckerberg-takes-full-page-140622747.html

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/m/e89bd65f-abde-3cef-9160-46d7fbe8c971/ss_mark-warner-says-mark.html

It should be at least possible to select or de-select from a group of permissions which ones i'd like to allow, or not. Currently you can only agree to all or decline to all. What the....

​And herein lays the opportunity for more software testers working at the government. (And also at big companies like Facebook, Twitter, Google, etcetera.) (and they should work together (in synergy)).

​The #number of software testers that is needed, and the number of good schooled, certified and experienced software testers available in the market (fishpool) are allready way to little at this moment. 

​But, if the world wide governments are really serious about such scandals we have had lately, and they really want to STOP! those kind of unhealthy privacy scandals, then they should motivate new students to choose for the course/job of software testing. Otherwise the shortage of software testers in the nearby future will probably be ​​​CATASTROPHIC!!

The privacy scandal like we have seen lately probably will be just a snowflake on the tip of the Iceberg.​

​​My opinion is:

It is very clear. People want to know what they are giving permissions to regarding mobile apps.​

​Mis-usage of privacy information must be stopped immediately.

​Government should have controll and possibilities to software test those software giants to make sure they are respecting the laws of world citizens. 
​(Securing privacy information should become top priority).

​Software giants should follow/respect/obey the world governments and not the other way around.

SOFTWARE TESTING (proof of security and privacy) should be done according to laws, not by desire/wish/like/fun of a  company.