We're gonna trust huawei with privacy features now?
this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2022
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Found a glowie.
Don't know what that means, don't care what that means. You just wasted a reply.
Yeah they aren't the most trustworthy company when it comes to privacy.
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.
Exactly
Cautiously optimistic this can penetrate both the Android and Windows markets in China. Monopolies might stop innovation, but we can always do better than duopolies.
Isn't HarmonyOS based on Android?
Looks like you're right. I assumed it was forked from the Linux kernel directly.
More specifically, there's actually multiple operating systems called HarmonyOS, one of which is based on Android, one of which is based on the Linux kernel, and at least one is completely proprietary. It's not clear which one is being shown in the video, but maybe the Android one is.