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This makes sense to me from a privacy standpoint. Your SD card can be easily removed, and if there is sensitive data there that's bad.


How does this help privacy? The data is still on the SD card, unencrypted. All apps have to store data at "/Android/Data/<Package Name>". No apps can delete data anywhere else.

This helps with unwanted orphaned files when uninstalling an app. That is pretty much it.




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