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Per one tech forum this week: “Google has quietly installed an app on all Android devices called ‘Android System SafetyCore’. It claims to be a ‘security’ application, but whilst running in the background, it collects call logs, contacts, location, your microphone, and much more making this application ‘spyware’ and a HUGE privacy concern. It is strongly advised to uninstall this program if you can. To do this, navigate to 'Settings’ > 'Apps’, then delete the application.”

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[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Seems to be innocuous, but there's no harm in removing it. Next update, it'll be returned, so the better solution long-term will be (if you're rooted) is to use an application to freeze it, which effectively disables it and it should survive and update. If you delete the app, a new update will put it back.

[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Jokes on you my phone is so old it hasn't updated in 4 years

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[–] jayandp@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (6 children)

You can freeze using ADB/Shizuku as well. No root needed.

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[–] Kraiden@kbin.earth 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Huh. My device seems to have been skipped? I don't do anything special, I'm using Play Store and Play Services, and I'm up to date, but it's not showing up in my settings app list

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[–] perestroika@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The countdown to Android's slow and painful death is already ticking for a while.

It has become over-engineered and no longer appealing from a developer's viewpoint.

I still write code for Android because my customers need it - will be needing for a while - but I've stopped writng code for Apple's i-things and I research alternatives for Android. Rolling my own environment with FOSS components on top of Raspbian looks feasible already. On robots and automation, I already use it.

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[–] chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Jesus thanks for posting this. Found it on my LG ThinQ.

Anyone have a fairphone? Thoughts about it?

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