{"id":175,"date":"2023-10-20T00:45:10","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T00:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/securitygems.com\/?p=175"},"modified":"2023-10-19T20:50:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T20:50:03","slug":"does-costco-app-need-these-permissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/securitygems.com\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"Does Costco App Need these permissions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\"> A neighbor wanted to use the Costco app <<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/datasafety?id=com.costco.app.android&#038;hl=en_US&#038;gl=US\">play.google.com\/store\/apps\/datasafety?id=com.costco.app.android&amp;hl=en_US&amp;gl=US<\/a>> to have the digital member card and just use their phone for shopping instead of carrying a physical card.  They asked if it was a a good idea.<br \/>\nChecked the permissions in the play store<br \/>\nWhy does Costco need to read messages, emails and browser history? [image: image.png]<br \/>\nThe benefit of the app is not worth giving up privacy IMHOP.<\/p>\n<div class=\"postie-attachments\"><a href=\"https:\/\/securitygems.com\/?attachment_id=176\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/securitygems.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-300x206.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300px\" height=\"206px\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/securitygems.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/securitygems.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image.png 626w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A neighbor wanted to use the Costco app to have the digital member card and just use their phone for shopping instead of carrying a physical card. They asked if it was a a good idea. Checked the permissions in the play store Why does Costco need to read messages, emails and browser history? [image: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/securitygems.com\/?p=175\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Does Costco App Need these permissions?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/securitygems.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/securitygems.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/securitygems.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securitygems.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securitygems.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/securitygems.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securitygems.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/securitygems.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securitygems.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securitygems.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}