You remember #Apple scanning all images on your #mobile device?
If you have an #Android #phone, a new app that doesn't appear in your menu has been automatically and silently installed (or soon will be) by #Google. It is called #AndroidSystemSafetyCore and does exactly the same - scan all images on your device as well as all incoming ones (via messaging). The new spin is that it does so "to protect your #privacy".
You can uninstall this app safely via System -> Apps.
https://developers.google.com/android/binary_transparency/google1p/overview
@jack You remember Apple succumbing to public pressure and quietly never implementing it in the first place?
Edit: I’m gonna make a big addendum to this comment. While Apple *did* scrap plans for CSAM detection due to public pressure, they did implement an on-device mechanism for blurring “sensitive content.” A feature much like the one on Android in the original post here, although I’ve yet to find much transparency on the Android apps’ workings. This on-device functionality works like face detection, so if you’re okay with that there’s little reason to be alarmed.
@blitzen That's probably why google is so sneaky about it.
@ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.orgTry searching in Apps the exact wording is : "Android System SafetyCore" ) spaces and upper case letters are important.
@ParadeGrotesque @CatHerder @jack @blitzen „Android“ is enough, the list of apps starting with „Android“ isn't that long.
It's there and it's freaking me out: Google, pushing something I didn't ask for, and not even telling me is no way to go. Next phone will be a Huawei one without Android!