App permissions

[chrisnutt]

Hi,

I have been asked by a senior member of the IT department to explain why the Hornbill app needs access to each of the things shown in the attached image. I have been unable to find any answers on the wiki or in an existing thread. Please, can you let me know here?

Many thanks

Chris

[Gerry]

Hi Chris,

Most of them are self-explanatory apart from Device & App history, not sure why we would need that to be honest.  

Identity - we use the basic info like name/handle when connecting

Location - we support location tagging with the "Check-in" option

Photos/Media - Hornbills rich content allows for adding images, videos etc, we need access to those files in order to let you post them

Camera - same as above

Device ID - we use this to identify the device when its registered against your user account

Hope that helps. 
Gerry

[Steve Giller]

The 'Device & App History' permission on the Hornbill App is to allow access to the 'retrieve running apps' function.
I would assume that is to ensure that the app reactivates itself if it's in the background rather than creating a second instance.