Not really, iOS permissions are more granular sometimes - iOS will ask you before an app accesses your phonebook, and you can deny the access. You can't do that with Android.
Not true, http://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.perm...
(The first shipped Kitkat builds supported a form of this, but it was quickly removed, amidst complaints from privacy advocates:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/12/google-removes-vital-p...
So, there are a few shipped phones which can have this functionality made accessible via third party app --- but update your phone and they cease to work.)