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🚨BREAKING: Google will soon install an app called #AndroidSystemSafetyCore (mastodon.social)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Tutanota@mastodon.social to c/privacy@fedia.io

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🚨BREAKING: Google will soon install an app called #AndroidSystemSafetyCore

They say it's a "safety measure" to protect your #privacy, but in fact it's client-side scanning.

Yet, we all know that client-side scanning is bad: https://tuta.com/blog/eu-client-side-scanning

Deinstall the app on your #Android: System -> Apps

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[–] tokensane@mastodon.me.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago

@Tutanota@mastodon.social Google's official statement about #AndroidSystemSafetyCore is here: .

TL;DR: Yes, it does client-side scanning for nudity, but it only notifies the user. It does not (according to Google) notify anyone else. This is unlike the Apple thing, which scanned for CSAM in particular and then sent anything it identified to the government.

Of course Google might be lying, but that's always the risk of a closed OS. This changes nothing.