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at this point i'd like to recommend cyanogenmod with privacy guard again [1]

or openpdroid [2], or both. the cool thing about openpdroid is that you can spoof location requests too. also, i don't think any other privacy app allows you to block requests to sim and imei info

[1] http://www.androidcentral.com/cyanogenmod-updating-privacy-g...

[2] http://www.xda-developers.com/android/openpdroid-brings-an-o...

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I believe XPrivacy[1] looks more promising than OpenPDroid. First of all Xposed Framework feels easier to integrate - no need to mess with full-fledged ROM embedding, just light patch to the Dalvik and reboot.

And the things I really fancy about XPrivacy is that current versions have learning mode (like `su` GUI prompts, configurable to automatically deny or allow after a timeout) and yet-underdeveloped but very promising argument-level permission controls (i.e. allows WebView's loadUrl for one URI, but not another).

[1]: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2320783

I hope CyanogenMod (but other ROMs are welcome to do it, too) keeps focusing on the privacy and security aspect.

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