Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos
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Its a classic example of using "BUT THE CHILDREN" to be invasive dickheads.
And it immediately reminds me of the story of the guy whose kid had a rash in the diaper area during covid, and the pediatrician requested pictures, which google flagged as child pornography and called the cops on him, and banned/locked him out of everything (phone number, emails, pictures, etc etc) because he had everything on google.
and no amount of the police, or even doctor, insisting the pictures were medical necessity and not child pornography would convince google to restore his acount or even let him recover his number/email/pictures/etc.
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Most people don't really know what that actually means, and they don't feel they have anything to hide from some nebulous corporate entity.
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Uber works on GrapheneOS
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you can look it up on your app managment settings too, search for it there.
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i was able to find it on my oneplus, and i also noticed, why is my oneplus 12r draining so fast?
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Samsung lets me uninstall it now problem.
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how to freeze it on the app?
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Samsung? I was able to on my s23ultra
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same here, i was wondering why my Op12r was draining like super fast, for a phone touthing 2+days(and im not even playing games or videos on it)
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you can search in your settings/app managment(im using a onplus12r though
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broken english too, probably from a paid indian reviewer.
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yea i found it as soon as this article said it was on your phone spying on you, ALSO many people, like myself noticed the battery draining pretty fast too, this is probalby the cause, if it installs without your knowledge, i doubt the app is excluded from your "app battery usage logs to, like it doesnt show up how much power its using.
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too bad firefox is going through the way like google, they are updating thier privacy terms of usage.
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And interestingly enough my phone crapped out on this post. But at least I was still able to read the the post.
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ironfox?
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Interestingly I don't have it on my stock samsung phone. I haven't updated it since oneui 6. Is safetycore installed by update or by GMS?
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Then I guess the better question is what do you use?
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I don't see it on the app store to remove anymore
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People don't seem to understand the risks presented by normalizing client-side scanning on closed source devices. Think about how image recognition works. It scans image content locally and matches to keywords or tags, describing the person, objects, emotions, and other characteristics. Even the rudimentary open-source model on an immich deployment on a Raspberry Pi can process thousands of images and make all the contents searchable with alarming speed and accuracy.
So once similar image analysis is done on a phone locally, and pre-encryption, it is trivial for Apple or Google to use that for whatever purposes their use terms allow. Forget the iCloud encryption backdoor. The big tech players can already scan content on your device pre-encryption.
And just because someone does a traffic analysis of the process itself (safety core or mediaanalysisd or whatever) and shows it doesn't directly phone home, doesn't mean it is safe. The entire OS is closed source, and it needs only to backchannel small amounts of data in order to fuck you over.
Remember the original justification for clientside scanning from Apple was "detecting CSAM". Well they backed away from that line of thinking but they kept all the client side scanning in iOS and Mac OS. It would be trivial for them to flag many other types of content and furnish that data to governments or third parties.
