<story><title>Introducing Cover</title><url>http://coverscreen.tumblr.com/post/64965314790/introducing-cover</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cik</author><text>This terrifies me.  There&amp;#x27;s an instant problem of paranoia, and trust here. I would never be okay with the idea of an application monitoring what I&amp;#x27;m doing, in order to reorder itself.  Mind you, I say all this without knowing if it requests network access.&lt;p&gt;How do I know you&amp;#x27;re not sending my usage patterns upstream to CoverCorp? How do I know that you&amp;#x27;re not reading the Android Music Provider database, and sharing my data back?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tene</author><text>So, let&amp;#x27;s say your worst fears are true, and it&amp;#x27;s sending up a log of every app you use.  What happens then?  What&amp;#x27;s the harm?  I&amp;#x27;m not being rhetorical, I really don&amp;#x27;t follow what the fear is here.  I can&amp;#x27;t imagine how my life would be any different if some company knows that I launched chrome at 12:22, then hangouts at 12:30, then some half-assed game at 12:35.</text></comment>
<story><title>Introducing Cover</title><url>http://coverscreen.tumblr.com/post/64965314790/introducing-cover</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cik</author><text>This terrifies me.  There&amp;#x27;s an instant problem of paranoia, and trust here. I would never be okay with the idea of an application monitoring what I&amp;#x27;m doing, in order to reorder itself.  Mind you, I say all this without knowing if it requests network access.&lt;p&gt;How do I know you&amp;#x27;re not sending my usage patterns upstream to CoverCorp? How do I know that you&amp;#x27;re not reading the Android Music Provider database, and sharing my data back?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avree</author><text>How do you know that Google is not doing all this as part of the Android OS? Or any other app on your phone that requests network access?&lt;p&gt;Secondly, why would you care?</text></comment>