🚨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: https://tuta.com/blog/eu-client-side-scanning
Deinstall the app on your #Android: System -> Apps
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@truls46@mastodon.social Way better choice!
@truls46@mastodon.social See .
@Tutanota@mastodon.social done, thank you!
@Tutanota@mastodon.social
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.
@Tutanota@mastodon.social 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.
@Tutanota@mastodon.social uninstalled. Danke.
Thanks for this, it was already installed in my S21… uninstalled.
Monitoring now for reinstalls.
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.”#AndroidSystemSafetyCore #Android #Privacy #GrapheneOS
@Tutanota@mastodon.social 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
@Tutanota@mastodon.social Is there even any other function to the app that’s not scanning of photos on user’s phone?
@Tutanota@mastodon.social #DismantleGoogle #BoycottGoogle. Get #Linux open source.
@Tutanota@mastodon.social Deleted, was already installed, thanks.
@Tutanota@mastodon.social Can confirm this was on my Samsung S24 this morning
@Tutanota@mastodon.social Deleted, was already installed on my #FairPhone 5, thanks.
@Tutanota@mastodon.social This feature doesn’t actually send any data to Google unless the user chooses to report findings as spam. See
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?
@Tutanota@mastodon.social I uninstalled it earlier today. Probably need to check every time there is an Android update.














