I'm surprised at the EFF. this post seems intended to save face for them rather than anything else.

They had a post recently lauding App Ops although it was never officially released, announced nor documented. And it certainly was not accessible to the average user.

Also it was obviously not compatible with most apps, as they didn’t fail too gracefully. Again: App Ops Was Never Meant For End Users, Used For Internal Testing And Debugging Only

http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/12/11/googler-app-ops-was-...

I do hope Google is working on something similar on an OS level for future releases, but this hack job by the EFF is disappointing and unnecessary.