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Android Terminal Emulator does not collect, store, transmit, or share any personally identifiable information with anyone or anything.
If you use Android Terminal Emulator to run a command line application that connects to the network (such as an IRC chat program, or a ssh shell, or an FTP client, or a BitTorrent client), then it may be possible for third parties to observe your activities by observing your network traffic. The risks are similar to the risks of using "Incognito Mode" in a web browser.
If you experience an "Application Not Responding", or "Forced Close" event while using Android Terminal Emulator, you may be asked for permission to upload a crash report. If you agree, some information about the crash will be uploaded. This information is designed to not contain any personally identifiable information, but may include information such as the stack crawl of what the program was trying to do when it crashed, as well as limited information about your phone's software (such as which version of Android Terminal Emulator you were using.)
Android Terminal Emulator asks for several permissions on behalf of the command line tools that you can run from within Android Terminal Emulator. By itself Android Terminal Emulator does not use any of these permissions. It requests the permissions so that they are available to command-line programs that ar run from within the terminal emulator.
- android.permission.INTERNET allows access the Internet. Examples of programs that use this permission are rcp, telnet, ssh, and ftp.
- WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE allows writing to the SD card. Used by cp, mv, and any tool that writes files.
- ACCESS_SUPERUSER - this is a special permission, see "Access Superuser" below.
- WAKE_LOCK allows keeping the screen and/or CPU turned on. This is controlled using the "Take Wake Lock" menu items. This is helpful for people trying to run long-duration commands such as compilers.
This permission is not a standard Android system permission. Instead, it is an informal standard developed by the enthusiast community. It is used to allow a program to indicate that it would like to acquire super-user permission. This permission is ignored by normal Android computers. It only does something if you have installed an enthusiast ROM (such as CyanogenMOD) that supports the feature.
Android Terminal Emulator does nothing with the Access Superuser permission by itself. It asks for the permission in order to allow command-line tools to run as root.