How we built the new Find My Device network with user security and privacy in mind
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Posted by Dave Kleidermacher, VP Engineering, Android Security and Privacy Keeping people safe and their data secure and private is a t...

I saw this on infinity for Reddit earlier, I don’t know if there’s a workaround for this or not.

  • @shortwavesurfer@monero.townEnglish
    11•1 month ago

    It appears to require a Google account to do the tracking. So yeah, without Google services, you should be perfectly safe. Since you have no Google account registered on device and no services that run rogue in the background,

    • @GolfNovemberUniform
      14•1 month ago

      If the Bluetooth module itself is still running, it will be trackable

      • @shortwavesurfer@monero.townEnglish
        14•1 month ago

        The article did not say specifically how it was getting added to Android 15, because if it’s in AOSP, then yeah, there’s definitely a problem. But if it’s in Google Play Services, which seems likely, then it would not be as big of an issue.

      • @BorgDrone@lemmy.one
        2•1 month ago

        If it works anything like Apple’s Find My (which it appears to do) then no you won’t be trackable.

        • @GolfNovemberUniform
          3•1 month ago

          I don’t care. I want to be able to disable Bluetooth completely. If Android (even AOSP) doesn’t let me, it’s dead for me