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	Some permissions are sensitive enough that we don't want to just hand them to any app. For example a permission which enables pages to read or modify pictures from the users picture folder is very sensitive. For such an API we in addition to requiring the app to enumerate the permission in the app manifest, require that the app is a "Privileged App". See details about this in the section for Privileged Apps below.		Some permissions are sensitive enough that we don't want to just hand them to any app. For example a permission which enables pages to read or modify pictures from the users picture folder is very sensitive. For such an API we in addition to requiring the app to enumerate the permission in the app manifest, require that the app is a "Privileged App". See details about this in the section for Privileged Apps below.


	=== Permission Prompts ===		=== Permission Prompts ===