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·
      9 months 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,

        • shortwavesurfer@monero.townEnglish
          14·
          9 months 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
          31·
          9 months ago

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

          • GolfNovemberUniform
            63·
            9 months 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

            • BorgDrone@lemmy.one
              75·
              9 months ago

              You still can.

              I’m just pointing out that your paranoia is out of ignorance, instead of a sound understanding of the technology.

      • HelloHotel@lemm.ee
        3·
        9 months ago

        I am aware that there are highly opinionated people in the graphineOS team. we had a scandal a while back that shook up the company (and I to the best of my understanding, kicked off/demoted some members, if its didn’t I’m getting another phone) a little while back. for being so important for my life and the lives of many others, the tightrope of maintaining trust that the OS is safe is unacceptably wobbly.

          • Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            9 months ago

            do you have a higher quality img, or text based version of this Firefox insecure graphic?. hard to read.

            maybe you have this link to Undit

          • Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            9 months ago

            interesting.can you explain what you mean by embargo beta patching partnership?

            I’ve been following your comments and posts over lemmy and reddit actually, for a couple years. i dont agree with everything but it’s absolutely important to be researching beyond the popular/mainstream privacy community narrative, which I appreciate.