🚨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
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Michał Narecki
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GrapheneOS
2025-02-08 17:17:03
Truls
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2025-02-08 17:17:03
Giuseppe Guglielmucci
in reply to Tuta • • •OldGeek
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in reply to Tuta • • •Wikinaut
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 • • •See grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/….
GrapheneOS
2025-02-08 17:17:03
Max
in reply to Tuta • • •GrapheneOS
in reply to Max • • •@b7ed68b062de6b4a12e51fd5285c1e1e0ed0e5128cda93ab11b4150b55ed32fc See grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/….
GrapheneOS
2025-02-08 17:17:03
Max
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in reply to Max • • •@b7ed68b062de6b4a12e51fd5285c1e1e0ed0e5128cda93ab11b4150b55ed32fc We can make a Nostr account at some point. Does this work?
grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/…
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2025-02-08 17:17:03
Max
in reply to GrapheneOS • • •By the way here the ID of the post in the nostr bridge.
GrapheneOS
in reply to Max • • •Monkey Pox Denier
in reply to GrapheneOS • • •FFS go nostr (too), mastadon is nice for your local sports group but not for privacy or censorship resistance.
Ah yea and the zaps..
GrapheneOS
in reply to Monkey Pox Denier • • •sankthoshi
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in reply to sankthoshi • • •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
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GibGab210
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in reply to Tuta • • •Oliver Geer
in reply to Brian Ragle (he/him/his) 🇺🇸🖖🏼 • • •@ragle It is apparently for CSAM, but since it's probably not FOSS it's difficult (though definitely not impossible) to know what else it does, if anything: androidauthority.com/google-me…
It's quite annoying (and unhelpful for Google!) that the description in Play Store is incredibly vague...
Here's how Google is letting Messages warn you about nudes - Android Authority
Mishaal Rahman (Android Authority)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.
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 • • •Gytis Repečka
in reply to Tuta • • •Read more in official blog post and this thread
5 new protections on Google Messages to help keep you safe
security.googleblog.comjack
2025-02-05 16:29:31
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 • • •Jaroslav Svoboda
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
2025-02-08 17:17:09
The 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
2025-02-08 17:17:03
Claratata (brown out arc)
in reply to Tuta • • •Pete
in reply to Tuta • • •Heash 🐧👑
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 Pelican Dock Music • • •All of it. Or at least recommended stuff by github.com/Universal-Debloater… (do read the descriptions to decide what to might want to keep though). #debloat #android #uad
@Tutanota
GitHub - Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation: Cross-platform GUI written in Rust using ADB to debloat non-rooted Android devices. Improve your privacy, the security and battery life of your device.
GitHubAllanon 🇮🇹
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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.