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Can't it still (theoretically) communicate via play services (if you have them installed) or am I being overly paranoid?
Maybe? I thought the point of Google Play Services being a regular sandboxed app was to prevent such things.
My (limited) understanding is that the sandboxing stops it having root-like privileges to do whatever it wants, but any app that wants to actually use it still can (otherwise play services wouldn't actually be able to do anything and apps that require it would still fail, right?)