🚨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: tuta.com/blog/eu-client-side-s…
Deinstall the app on your #Android: System -> Apps
"There is no prosecution at any cost." | Tuta
Germany opposes client-side scanning planned by EU - it would create an unprecedented surveillance monster that violates fundamental rights.Tuta
Michał Narecki
in reply to Tuta • • •Truls
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in reply to Tuta • • •Fuck!
Was present on one of my devices.
Uninstalled.
Seems not to be listed as a regular app in the play store.
WTF
cajo
in reply to Tuta • • •Thanks for this, it was already installed in my S21.. uninstalled.
Monitoring now for reinstalls.
☠ Captain Arcee ☠
in reply to Tuta • • •Anyone know what versions of Android are effected by this, and is this an EU only problem or does this effect Android phones worldwide?
EDIT: Answer? Android 9 and up, and its worldwide
child of baphomet
in reply to Tuta • • •Neil
in reply to Tuta • • •already found it on my phone. And deleted it.
My next phone will be with #murena e/OS.
mndflayr
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in reply to Tuta • • •GrapheneOS
in reply to Tuta • • •GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social)
GrapheneOS Mastodonodilarjr1
in reply to Tuta • • •Erik van Straten
in reply to Tuta • • •: it was already installed on my Google Pixel 6 Pro - without anybody asking whether I agree with this shit.
Just uninstalled it.
#CameraInYourBathroom #ClientSideScanning #AndroidSystemSafetyCore #CSS #ChatControl #Privacy #BigBrother #BigTechIsEvil #GoogleIsEvil #WhatAreTheySmoking
GibGab210
in reply to Tuta • • •Brian Ragle (he/him/his) 🇺🇸🖖🏼
in reply to Tuta • • •pockets
in reply to Tuta • • •Already uninstalled.
Unfortunately, there isn't much in the way of alternative OS offerings for my Teracube 2e (current primary) or my Oneplus Six (first backup).
At least nothing that I've been able to find with a tutorial simplified enough for a nigh-layperson like myself.
And I can't afford a new phone right now.
Chris
in reply to Tuta • • •thank you.
I've checked my phone and it's not installed. Maybe because I don't have a google account on the phone and have gutter the google apps with adb.
I will have to check my family's phones because they are less willing to give up google services
Murat Timur
in reply to Tuta • • •Christian
in reply to Tuta • • •I do not trust, Google, Microsoft, Apple.. without Math or open Source... Compilers and or Hardware. I know we have no Choice cause sublayer complexity. However i would love to have Democracy and self sustainable informed individual Humans, Computers or Neural Networks. Like Perfect Markets or Internet, Worlds or Individuals...
Martin Rust
in reply to Tuta • • •Token Sane Person
in reply to Tuta • • •Google's official statement about #AndroidSystemSafetyCore is here: security.googleblog.com/2024/1….
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.
5 new protections on Google Messages to help keep you safe
security.googleblog.comMarcos D. Alves
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in reply to Tuta • • •Viral Obscurity
in reply to Tuta • • •I spoke with family and its been found on 3 Samsung galaxy phones so far
All easy to remove though
RejZoR
in reply to Tuta • • •fredallas
in reply to Tuta • • •tidbit
in reply to Tuta • • •This feature doesn't actually send any data to Google unless the user chooses to report findings as spam. See security.googleblog.com/2024/1…
While I think it's generally fair to criticize corporations for their spying practices, I'm not sure what Tuta deems problematic in this case?
5 new protections on Google Messages to help keep you safe
Google Online Security Blogfrankie (auto-rebootable)
in reply to Tuta • • •Quoting a Mastodon post by GrapheneOS:
"The app doesn't provide client-side scanning used to report things to Google or anyone else. It provides on-device machine learning models usable by applications to classify content as being spam, scams, malware, etc. This allows apps to check content locally without sharing it with a service and mark it with warnings for users."
grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/…
#AndroidSystemSafetyCore #Android #Privacy #GrapheneOS
GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social)
GrapheneOS MastodonThe Dubster
in reply to Tuta • • •jesterchen42
in reply to Tuta • • •Before you do you might wanna read this statement: grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/…
And if you still want to remove this feature, I suggest to switch to grapheneOS completely. You'll never know when it'll be back.
GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social)
GrapheneOS MastodonClaratata (brown out arc)
in reply to Tuta • • •Pete
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in reply to Tuta • • •Im currently carrier locked but desperately want to switch to GrapheneOS. Its user uninstallable for now but we should have the package name saved so if it does become a system it can be nulled of via adb
Petunientopf
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in reply to Tuta • • •jack
in reply to Tuta • • •...or might already have done so:
mastodon.sdf.org/@jack/1139522…
jack
2025-02-05 16:29:31
Krystyna
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in reply to Tuta • • •Removed it, but I wonder how long before it's integrated in the OS.
And what is the logic behind this? They are going to catch a few pedophiles stupid enough to keep pictures in their phones, while those who actually abuse children to make that content will continue doing what they do. As far as I can see this is just something that politicians and use and say "we did something".
And when privacy is eroded, so will be the other freedoms.