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I feel the same way. After the whole flashlight app data harvesting debacle on Android, I haven't been able to find a flashlight app for my phone that doesn't give me privacy goosebumps.

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Open Flashlight in F-Droid is open source and GPL. You can verify that it respects your privacy.

Awesome. Just checked. https://github.com/sanbeg/flashlight That's better...

But the flashlight in the data harvesting debacle requested your location. It didn't somehow fetch data that your didn't authorize it to get.

You can just install a flashlight app that only asks for the permission it needs.

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