Huawei extended the concept of a "super device" to allow quick and easy pairings of devices that extend their functionality.
    • OsrsNeedsF2P
      4·
      2 years ago

      The new OS version keeps a log of how often each app accesses your location, camera, microphone, files or contacts. It will show you a graph so you can decide to remove permissions manually, but the system can do it automatically too. It will also keep an eye out for malicious behavior from apps, suspicious network activity and other threats. Untrusted apps can be given bogus permissions, which will allow them to open e.g. a seemingly empty image gallery or an SMS inbox with nothing in it.

      The system also has easy tools to remove potentially sensitive data when sharing photos – the embedded time and location, for example. It can also scan through screenshots and blur out phone numbers, addresses and so on.

      It’s privacy to protect against who they deem malicious actors. If you think Huawei is a malicious actor, there’s nothing here that will ever please you, so move on.

      • altair222@beehaw.org
        14·
        2 years ago

        Don’t know what that means, don’t care what that means. You just wasted a reply.

    • Sandro LinuxOPM
      43·
      2 years ago

      Yeah they aren’t the most trustworthy company when it comes to privacy.

        • OsrsNeedsF2P
          1·
          2 years ago

          Aight so listen, this might blow your mind, because I know almost nobody mentions it inside commie circlejerks, but I’m gonna say it anyways:

          No ethical, competent person thinks the US army is morally good. Every time a tankie comes out and talks about how “At least Chinese X isn’t as bad as US Y!”, people roll their eyes. It’s not an argument. They’re both be bad.