Privacy

32120 readers

1042 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

Android's new anti-theft features (blog.google)

submitted 6 months ago by funn@lemy.lol to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

17 comments fedilink hide all child comments

cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/25062075

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

All of the biggest surveillance tracking was under the guise of anti-theft. Lojack, Intel ME anti theft, etc

"It's for your own good. trust us, we promise it's only for good stuff"

[–] funn@lemy.lol 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ya, kinda feel that. I mean Apple has the best anti theft features,yet they are stolen regularly 😔

[–] moreeni@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do you have proofs that Intel ME was actually used for tracking?

[–] Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

😂😂 found one of 'em

[–] moreeni@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

😂😂 this is all very funny, bud, but if you make such assumptions without proofs you will quickly go insane.

Inel ME is ridiculously complex for the goal of collecting telemetry. Intel uses drivers for that purpose.

ME is likely used for security. Not yours, though:

Security of the company, for example, when someone decides to steal large amount of CPUs or something like that. We've seen something similar when a South African shop was robbed of Samsung TVs, which were remotely disabled.
National security. Obviously, should a great war break out that would directly confront NATO, the US would be quick to pressure Intel into remotely messing with enemy country's computers.

[–] Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

cope, but also seethe. dilate, even.