66
Google delays its upgraded Find My Device network until Apple can add safety alerts
(www.theverge.com)
Nice, an actual standard that Google and Apple are agreeing to?
this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2023
66 points (100.0% liked)
Technology
37740 readers
50 users here now
A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.
Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.
Subcommunities on Beehaw:
This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Exactly. When does that ever happen? Covid 19 contact tracing was the pretense to get this tech through the door. Literally government trackers in everyone’s pockets.
I don't think so? There's "Find My" network from Apple and there's this one from Google. The only intercompatibility planned is the alerts for unknown trackers following you.
Google and Apple have built out their own private 'little internet' by turning the users of their products into their own personal nodes that they have access to and control.
And thank god for that, because it helped me find my lost AirPods when I wasn’t quite sure where I left them out and about.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Is this saying that Google will get every device to log every Bluetooth device it detects, just in case one of them is then reported as missing? Like, what in the holy overreach stalker BS is this?
As if it's not already gathering all bluetooth devices in range already.
Remember that Google Streetview cars were sniffing Wifi networks back in 2010.
For what purpose? And also what does sniffing mean in this context? Just like.. finding them, or trying to connect to insecure ones or what?
From what I recall they were saving all the packets being broadcast as they drove past. (as opposed to only logging SSIDs)
Edit: Yup, it is as I had thought - but also it was more intentional than I had remembered: https://www.wired.com/2012/05/google-wifi-fcc-investigation/
(unpaywalled link) https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2F2012%2F05%2Fgoogle-wifi-fcc-investigation%2F
Nice.
I'll be sticking with AirGuard for now though, much prefer its more comprehensive UI