80
Android's new anti-theft features
(blog.google)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 16 May 2024
80 points (100.0% liked)
Technology
73495 readers
2983 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
This will be so useless, it will be triggered so often by parents snatching phones from teenagers and become an annoyance.
Seems like it will fulfill its purpose then - to protect said teenager's data.
Not the teenager's phone. The parents paid for it... and continue to pay for it through the subscription of cellular service. Unfortunately any attempt to keep the parent out would be accurately described as theft or destruction of property.
I think if parents need that much control then Android has features for parental control. I think 🤔, it's admin mode or something
No. Android doesn't. Google does. But not everyone wants to have anything to do with Google. Some OEMs do, like Samsung. But it's not in AOSP or basic Android feature. But my point wasn't to spy on the kid. It was device ownership.
Edit: Even this gets downvoted. You guys are fucking lunatics. A Child... using a phone given to them, can't even consent to the shit Google does to you legally. But you want their data "protected" from their parents so that a parent can't at least enforce decent digital hygiene. Ya'll fucking dumb. Your kids are going to do dumb shit and you want the parents who are supposed to be responsible for raising the kid to have no power to actually raise them even though it's literally the parents device.
Well, by that logic the parents can do whatever they want with the phone, yes, including stopping cellular service or resetting it entirely. But the OS would still protect the teenager's data from unauthorized access.