I am fully aware of what vpn services to use and not. I am not using Express VPN, I am simply doing research for a master thesis, when I came across these results from Express VPN. If you have any ideas or corrections, please let me know why a VPN provider would need to have access to these permissions.
Screenshot is from Exodus service, which let’s you view what exactly perimissions and trackers each app uses. You can check out the results and the tool for yourself here: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.expressvpn.vpn/latest/
I think you can use some of microG’s APIs without connecting it to google.
It’s just not implemented yet: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/2018
That’s good, but this post is encouraging wrong conclusion. Camera permission is not the problem, instead the problem is VPN having nothing to do with camera. Using VPN configuration files should be the way, or logging into an account securely (ExpressVPN in this case).