Meitu's anime makeover app is a permission-grabbing privacy disaster
by Cory Doctorow from on (#29JAP)
Meitu is one of Google Play's "Sand Hill" apps, part of the company's accelerator for apps with "viral potential" -- take a pic of yourself and Meitu will make you over to look like an anime character, and all they ask in return is every salient fact about you that can be gleaned from your mobile device. (more")