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Who owns your shiny new Pixel 9 phone? You can’t say no to Google’s surveillance (cybernews.com)
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Google's latest flagship smartphone raises concerns about user privacy and security. It frequently transmits private user data to the tech giant before any app is installed. Moreover, the Cybernews research team has discovered that it potentially has remote management capabilities without user awareness or approval.

Cybernews researchers analyzed the new Pixel 9 Pro XL smartphone’s web traffic, focusing on what a new smartphone sends to Google.

“Every 15 minutes, Google Pixel 9 Pro XL sends a data packet to Google. The device shares location, email address, phone number, network status, and other telemetry. Even more concerning, the phone periodically attempts to download and run new code, potentially opening up security risks,” said Aras Nazarovas, a security researcher at Cybernews...

... “The amount of data transmitted and the potential for remote management casts doubt on who truly owns the device. Users may have paid for it, but the deep integration of surveillance systems in the ecosystem may leave users vulnerable to privacy violations,” Nazarovas said...

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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 96 points 2 months ago (2 children)

GrapheneOS

[–] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Do they have passkeys yet

Edit: passkeys support. Last year when I checked they didn't support pass keys yet.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What does that even mean? It's not the function of an OS to have passkeys.

[–] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Grapheneos didn't support pass keys last year when I checked, so you couldn't use them at all. There was some APIs broken/missing between the OS to browser comms so you couldn't use 3rd party apps for pass keys, like proton or bit warden. I have been actively experimenting and adopting passkeys and didn't want to revert. It sounds like there is support now though, so I will give it a try soon.

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you! Idk why I was down voted, I appreciate it. I did a bunch of research on grapheneos last year around this time and it wasn't supported yet.

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah there's also a relevant post on the GrapheneOS forum where this was discussed in detail, but I can't find it anymore

[–] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No worries, ya I looked into it about a year ago when I was seeing if I could make the switch, glad there is support now.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure because I'm on a OnePlus device running a lineage OS.

[–] unrushed233@lemmings.world 1 points 2 months ago

What a fucking useless comment

[–] Chulk@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Yep, I've got a Pixel 9 Pro and I don't even have a Google account on this thing.