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Just about everything I install on my phone is suspect these days with respect to privacy and permissions. Why does BBC weather need to write to my USB storage for example and why do I have to let it?

The Nokia C2 I have floating around is starting to look interesting again. It has no idea where it is.

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Every functional phone knows where it is, in the sense that it knows the signal strength of one or more nearby cell towers.

A java app on your Nokia C2 could probably determine its location like this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11628648/how-to-find-use...

Yeah but there is no possibility of running one of these on S40 platform as J2ME apps don't run in the background.

Yes, BBC Weather. That's it. They are part of this mega anti-privacy NSA conspiracy too!

You say this as if it is silly to ask why such an app needs write-access to the USB storage.

Why do you think it is not a legitimate question?

I assume it's for caching data/images. Way back when, many Android devices were handicapped by their tiny internal storage

I question the snarkiness of his comment.

I want to understand why he thinks it is silly to question the requirement to agree to the permission.

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