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Per one tech forum this week: “Google has quietly installed an app on all Android devices called ‘Android System SafetyCore’. It claims to be a ‘security’ application, but whilst running in the background, it collects call logs, contacts, location, your microphone, and much more making this application ‘spyware’ and a HUGE privacy concern. It is strongly advised to uninstall this program if you can. To do this, navigate to 'Settings’ > 'Apps’, then delete the application.”

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[–] Punchshark@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago

Fuck these cunt

[–] red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Even with the latest update from Samsung, I am not seeing this app. My OnePlus did get it with the February update and I had to remove it.

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[–] perestroika@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The countdown to Android's slow and painful death is already ticking for a while.

It has become over-engineered and no longer appealing from a developer's viewpoint.

I still write code for Android because my customers need it - will be needing for a while - but I've stopped writng code for Apple's i-things and I research alternatives for Android. Rolling my own environment with FOSS components on top of Raspbian looks feasible already. On robots and automation, I already use it.

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[–] Whippygoatcream@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hope they like all my dick pics

[–] EndofLife@feddit.org 7 points 2 days ago

Don't worry they won't!

/Burn

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (7 children)

I'd that what's killing my fucking battery like crazy lately?

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[–] Event_Horizon@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (12 children)

It didn't appear in my apps list so I thought it wasn't installed. But when I searched for the app name it appears. So be aware.

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[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I've just given it the boot from my phone.

It doesn't appear to have been doing anything yet, but whatever.

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[–] mrodri89@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Is there any indication that Apple is truly more secure and privacy conscious over Android? Im kinda tired of Google and their oversteps.

[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

The short answer is: Apple collects much of the same data as any other modern tech composite, but their "walled garden" strategy means that for the most part only THEY have access to that info.

It's technically lower risk since fewer parties have access to the data, but philosophically just about equally as bad because they aren't doing this out of any real love for privacy (despite what their marketing department might claim)

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[–] Zier@fedia.io 22 points 3 days ago (3 children)

My question is, does it install as a stand alone app? Or is it part of a Google Play update chunk that you only find out after Play has updated? My system does not auto update (by design) so I'd like to know where it sources from.

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