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Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos (www.forbes.com)
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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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[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 15 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Apple had it report suspected matches, rather than warning locally

It got canceled because the fuzzy hashing algorithms turned out to be so insecure it's unfixable (easy to plant false positives)

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago

The official reason they dropped it is because there were security concerns. The more likely reason was the massive outcry that occurs when Apple does these questionable things. Crickets when it's Google.

The feature was re-added as a child safety feature called "Comminication Saftey" that is optional on a child accounts that will automatically block nudity sent to children.