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Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos (www.forbes.com)

submitted 4 months ago by ad_on_is@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Great, it'll have to plow through ~30GB of 1080p recordings of darkness and my upstairs neighbors living it up in the AMs. And nothing else.

[–] variouslegumes@reddthat.com 2 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I switched over to GrapheneOS a couple months ago and couldn't be happier. If you have a Pixel the switch is really easy. The biggest obstacle was exporting my contacts from my google account.

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

GrapheneOS — an Android security developer — provides some comfort, that SafetyCore “doesn’t provide client-side scanning used to report things to Google or anyone else. It provides on-device machine learning models usable by applications to classify content as being spam, scams, malware, etc. This allows apps to check content locally without sharing it with a service and mark it with warnings for users.”

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well then I hope they like seeing my butthole.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

My older brother swipes through your phone's photos without asking, so I put some colonoscopy pictures in there. He hasn't tried to look at photos on my phone since.

Oh Google what have you done to yourself.

[–] Nightsoul@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Thank you was able to find and uninstall the app with no issues

[–] LotrOrc@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I just un-installed it

Anyone know what Android System Intelligence does? Should that be un-installed as well?

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 points 4 months ago

You can safely uninstall System Intelligence if you don't need it. My phone has worked fine without it in the past year.

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