Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos

YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• OfficerBribe@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Here’s a link to it in PlayStore. It mentions some of the features it is a dependency for.

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  • YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I saw that, that’s what I meant by “it sounds like it has the capabilities to spy”, something that can do all those things must have lots of access and could provide perfect cover for any number of undesirable processes.

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• catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well yeah, any part of the os has the capability to spy.

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  • YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What do you mean by that? What I meant is that the capabilities and permissions it has could enable it to do so.

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    • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, so do the rest of the system apps, and the OS itself. Why is everyone freaking out about this one all of a sudden?

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