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Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos (www.forbes.com)
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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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[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 43 points 4 days ago

And they never say it in a helpful way, either. It's always done in a smug way.

[-] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

I can suffer a little smugness if it brings in to the fold atleast one dude who's never heard of LineageOS

[-] spooky2092 6 points 4 days ago

I've been considering putting graphene on my pixel for a month or so now, I'm just in tech and have a shit load of MFA entries in multiple apps that don't sync anywhere, and I don't have the energy to redo all that shit at work when I barely have enough time to do my normal shit....

I used to live rooting and throwing custom rooms on my phone, but I've been out of that for a decade and don't have a usable spare device to test/use as a backup.

[-] voracitude@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I understand, I was in exactly the same position. Then my battery swelled and wouldn't hold a charge at all, so I couldn't restore anything anyway, and my last backup was inaccessible (I know I know, test your backups, but like I started this post with I'm in the same boat of all work and no time for me).

Losing everything was remarkably freeing. Just switch all your 2FA to Aegis as has been suggested, and save anything you want to back up over the wire, then take the plunge. You won't lose everything like I had to, and you won't regret the switch 😊

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

how do you make sure that you always have the latest aegis backup somewhere else? did you automate uploading it somewhere?

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