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How private is DroidFS? (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi.

When considering the privacy credentials of an android app, I would usually search for reviews by well-known privacy advocates or recommendations from common privacy websites. However, with DroidFS I am unable to find much information and no recommendations from common sites. The little information I can find is that it is an efficient, easy-to-use implementation of gocryptfs and cryfs for android. This is what I am looking for but was wondering whether anyone had any further insight on the app from a privacy point of view please.

Thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

DoidFS can use the camera to take photos and record video. It gets stored in the vault instead of your camera roll. This ensures that other apps never get access to the photo/video, even if they have "all-files access".

Several other apps does some version of this. If you have tried to export a photo from Signal to your camera roll, you have probably seen this before.

DroidFS does not ask for camera permission unless you try to use this feature. The app does not need the camera for anything else, so if you don't allow it to use the camera everything else still works.