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Why do you give up, because other people know more about you, than you thought? Maybe giving up on the "nobody must ever know", but maybe not in general? There are still quite some steps from here to 1984, despite people dramatizing.
Maybe but the direction is towards 1984 not away from it.
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I always deactivate geolocation and I assume and hope it doesn't phone home to Google in that case. I still deactivate network if I don't need it. Android devices cannot really be trusted and it seems to be getting worse. Of course I am not using contact tracing either in this case, but I certainly won't allow Google to trace my location.
Even if you disable geolocation, Google can learn your location via Wifi/Access points nearby easily. It should be easy to cross references you (geolocation disabled) and others (one of them enabled geolocation) in the same network for Google. > Google retains a detailed map of known Wi-Fi networks and access points. By knowing the exact location of these networks, and your proximity to them, its location services ca…
30 feet sounds like cell tower triangulation.
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I always deactivate geolocation and I assume and hope it doesn't phone home to Google in that case. I still deactivate network if I don't need it. Android devices cannot really be trusted and it seems to be getting worse. Of course I am not using contact tracing either in this case, but I certainly won't allow Google to trace my location.
Even if you disable geolocation, Google can learn your location via Wifi/Access points nearby easily. It should be easy to cross references you (geolocation disabled) and others (one of them enabled geolocation) in the same network for Google. > Google retains a detailed map of known Wi-Fi networks and access points. By knowing the exact location of these networks, and your proximity to them, its location services ca…
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Even if you disable geolocation, Google can learn your location via Wifi/Access points nearby easily. It should be easy to cross references you (geolocation disabled) and others (one of them enabled geolocation) in the same network for Google. > Google retains a detailed map of known Wi-Fi networks and access points. By knowing the exact location of these networks, and your proximity to them, its location services ca…
It should be noted that by using WiFi (or Bluetooth) triangulation you can actually get much higher location accuracy, like a foot or two 30 feet sounds like cell tower triangulation.
All these smart people they hire and amount of shit code in android is staggering. They never commit to fundamentally fix/rebuild basics, it's just library on top of library which need to distributed with every app to use basic stuff. (Why the hell is support library even a thing?, if they can push spying shit through google play services, they can push support libs too, and not have every app include it their builds). Kotlin because they screwed up with Java license, instead of building something ground up they take these ugly routes. Look at what Apple is doing x86-Arm, Swift in last 5/6 years?. Google is still hacking around on top of Java language/VM's after over 10 years.
One of the most disappointing changes in Android recently is that any network-assisted geolocation plugins must now be installed as a system app, not a user app. That means that even if you use LineageOS where most Google stuff has been stripped out, getting a GPS fix through network assistance still sends data to Google servers. Only a tiny minority of users are comfortable working with the command line and will ins…
Private DNS (DNS over TLS) also sends metrics to a Google endpoint on every network change, as a way to detect connectivity. AOSP is truly a surveillance software.
https://www.reddit.com/r/vivaldibrowser/comments/a23071/how_...
Looking it up now they rewrote this part of the browser, and either moved it somewhere else or obfuscated it better.
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There's a setting hidden away in android allowing apps to scan local wifi/bluetooth networks even when wifi is turned " off ". Enabled by default of course.
What settings is that?
2 settings, one for Wi-Fi scanning and one for Bluetooth
If Google and its apps have become an almost essential utility, and if government authorities can request information just like that, seems like a good argument to be made that it's both a monopoly and a utility.
Not sure how possible this will be with so much interplay between the DNC and Silicon Valley?
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> https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview WTF? This makes me extremely uncomfortable for some reason. There was some hope in mind that Snowden was exaggerating but this is just insane. It feels like liberty has failed. There's no other option but to give in and accept. I submit to the overlords, but I'm not happy about this.
Liberty is not free. If you value it, then you're going to have to fight for it. Submission now leads to your descendants living in an oppressive dystopia.
Without government help, the only way to fight the oppressive dystopia you talked about is by becoming Richard Stallman. And I value not living in a university office and having to use Lynx and pine.