Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos
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Per one tech forum this week
Stop spreading misinformation.
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And what exactly does that have to do with GrapheneOS?
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I see it on my S25 Ultra.
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So is this really just a local AI model? Or is it something bigger? My S25 Ultra has the app but it hasn't used any battery or data.
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I know about WayDroid, but never heard of ATL.
So yeah, while we have the fundamentals, we still don't have an OS that's stable enough as a daily driver on phones.
And this isn't a Linux issue. It's mostly because of proprietary drivers. GrapheneOS already has the issue that it only works on Pixel phones.
I can imagine, bringing a Linux only mobile OS to life is even harder. I wish android phones were designed in a way, that there is a driver layer and an OS layer, with standerdized APIs to simply swap the OS layer for any unix-like system.
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Do we have any proof of it doing anything bad?
Taking Google's description of what it is it seems like a good thing. Of course we should absolutely assume Google is lying and it actually does something nefarious, but we should get some proof before picking up the pitchforks.
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Who would have thought the best security practice would turn out to be having devices too old to be updated with spyware? No jokes
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Please, read the links. They are the security and privacy experts when it comes to Android. That's their explanation of what this Android System SafetyCore actually is.
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Google is always 100% lying.
There are too many instances to list and I'm not spending 5 hours collecting examples for you.
They removed don't be evil long time ago -
To quote the most salient post
The app 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.
Which is a sorely needed feature to tackle problems like SMS scams
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My system is set to auto update, and yet it never automatically updates any app. Drives me fucking crazy.
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I remember reading recently that it's gotten better (haven't tried myself so don't hold me to it). I can say that Wayland in general has come a long way since I switched to Linux ~2 years ago
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I mean the grapheneos devs say it is. Are they going to lie.
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I'm mostly just frustrated that the best option has now become merely the lesser evil.
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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.
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Yep, I've removed both of those the second they showed up on my phone uninvited. Even as a non-US citizen, with the current state of their government, I definitely don't want any corporate collecting data on myself.
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If the app did what op is claiming then the EU would have a field day fining google.
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Thnx for this, just uninstalled it, google are arseholes
