Google secretly installs a system that scans your pictures – how you can turn it off
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And here's a potential solution for people who want to remain in control whether this gets installed on their phone:
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This has nothing to do with browser.
This is an android thing.
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So, having a local AI that did sanity checks like this ("Hey, are you sure you want to send this picture of your dick to your boss?") isn't a bad thing.
But Google doesn't have the trustworthiness to implement something like this without everyone assuming, based on their past behavior, that it will be misused and a privacy nightmare.
I can just imagine seeinging in the future: Oh, new update, the SafetyCore app now scans your phone with a new black box model and reports any hits to the police (but, don't worry it's just looking for child porn and not anything else*)
*Unless you're in China, or the US, or the EU or one of our other partners. Then it's looking for whatever minority group that the local authorities think need to be arrested this year.
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I didn't see either of them on my Android phone. It doesn't look like they were ever installed to begin with! Maybe because I live in the EU.
Thank god for the EU and GDPR!
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I live in EU and it was installed on my phone.
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I've checked on my girlfriend's phone and strangely enough the SafetyCore was displayed on here phone like any other app plus another app KeyVerifier. She said they appeared like 3 weeks ago...
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Thank you for letting me know. I will monitor if those things get installed on my app without permission.
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Appears to not be on mine
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Thank you!!