Every fucking time I get an application for simple stuff like cleaning or weight measuring, and it asks me for completely unnecessary things like making an account and requesting access to my gps location, I look up the company and find out it's Chinese. What the fuck man.

Not necessarily malicious intent.

It's just that "privacy" is not really a part of Chinese culture, so Chinese dev studios are usually very lax when it comes to "privacy by design" kind of things.

Managers at western app dev studios often have the same flaw ("yeah let's just keep all permissions on, might be useful later") —difference is, there's usually at least one dev who will protest that there are risks attached to gathering data.