{"id":3358,"date":"2026-11-04T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/your-phones-apps-could-have-more-permissions-than-they-need-heres-how-to-check\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T00:30:00","slug":"your-phones-apps-could-have-more-permissions-than-they-need-heres-how-to-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/your-phones-apps-could-have-more-permissions-than-they-need-heres-how-to-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Your phone&#8217;s apps could have more permissions than they need \u2013 here&#8217;s how to check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most smartphone apps need permissions to function properly, but some may have more access than they should. Thankfully, it&#8217;s pretty easy to check.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/gallery\/your-phones-apps-could-have-more-permissions-than-they-need-heres-how-to-check\/intro-1793264879.jpg\" \/><\/p><p>Please credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\">OBA Blog<\/a> &raquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/your-phones-apps-could-have-more-permissions-than-they-need-heres-how-to-check\/\">Your phone&#8217;s apps could have more permissions than they need \u2013 here&#8217;s how to check<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most smartphone apps need permissions to function properly, but some may have more access than they should. Thankfully, it&#8217;s pretty easy to check. Please credit: OBA Blog &raquo; Your phone&#8217;s apps could have more permissions than they need \u2013 here&#8217;s how to check<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}