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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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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why, what do you recommend?
I mean you have just disclaime the whole android ecosystem, and the only other alternative is Apple, which is questionable if it’s better.
and this would have even applied to my fairphone!
would have, if I didn’t get rid of google services the day I got it.
I don’t have to recommend anything just because I’m asking why people are buying spyware tech.
Just like I may not know the proper way to safely jump out of an airplane, but I do know a parachute is involved.
A person asking why people do a thing that seems stupid isn’t obligated to solve the problem.
I just realized the network error made me doubly post my comment, I’ve deleted the other copy
No worries. Happens to all of us.
Then I guess the better question is what do you use?
Wouldn’t it be a given that I don’t have an android phone?
That’s what you don’t use, which wasn’t what they asked, right?