Well I agree lots of times what the app wants is innocuous, I'd still rather have the message than not.
Maybe an option to open up a more detailed description of what the app wants the permissions for?
Maybe an option to open up a more detailed description of what the app wants the permissions for?
To a non-technical user, "Access nearby Wifi signals" (or something similar) sounds totally innocuous. Most people would approve that assuming that the app just wants to connect to the internet.
You could get more detailed and say "Access nearby Wifi signals, which could reveal your location", which conveys the privacy risk. But to the average user, "access nearby wifi signals" isn't adding anything - the only real privacy risk is that location is revealed, so it just makes sense to convey it as your location.
There's other cases where I think there's a better case for finer-grained permissions - some apps ask for phone call permission just so they can know whether you're a call or not - arguably something that should hardly require permission at all, but it's lumped in with one of the more scary sounding ones.
In this case, the phone OS could provide a similar interface for an app to pass off selection of an SSID or Bluetooth device to the OS, without giving away other permissions.