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It was more an analogy that if you're using a cellphone, someone on the other end knows where you are.

Google just got caught exploiting it.

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They got caught exploiting it without users consent, they got caught installing it, a spyware, without users consent, en masse, and there's no way to remove it, by design

Nobody is allowed do that via the appstore except google. It's bordering on abuse of dominant position.

[–] • 2 pts 3y

You don't own an Android device with Google services. You merely rent it.

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If it's a seperate app and not built into the OS then there 100%, absolutely a way to get rid of it. Give yourself root privileges, uninstall anything you'd like.

anything

You're gonna brick your phone though. https://pic8.co/sh/paibFm.png

Also, anyone using stock android in CY+6 deserves to be treated like cattle.

e; Though I am absolutely 100% not saying there isn't or shouldn't be a legal remedy for this, there should. This is jewish as fuck. However all of the above are well known too. I am just pointing out the hilarity in how people trust jewgle. Especially people on here.

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Many complained that the app had ‘force installed’ on their phones

Google issued a statement to 9to5Google, which does not addressing the claims that the app stealth installed on phones.

The statement reads:

We have been working with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to allow users to activate the Exposure Notifications System directly from their Android phone settings. This functionality is built into the device settings and is automatically distributed by the Google Play Store , so users don’t have to download a separate app. COVID-19 Exposure Notifications are enabled only if a user proactively turns it on. Users decide whether to enable this functionality and whether to share information through the system to help warn others of possible exposure.

ARS Technica notes that there are two different versions of the Mass Notify app on the Play store, and that one only has around 1000 installs and no complaints that it auto-installed, where as the other has been slammed by people claiming they didn’t ask for it to appear on their phones and has over a MILLION installs. That is odd because only 6.8 million live in the State, and if 50% of them have Android phones (which they don’t) then around a third have supposedly downloaded the app themselves.

“Did they roll this out to every device in Massachusetts?” ARS Technica questions.

The report notes “Both apps are listed under the ‘MA Department of Public Health’ developer account, which—uh— does not exist ? The link for the developer just 404s, which really does not inspire confidence in the app’s legitimacy.”

Others reported that the auto-installed version of MassNotify does not actually have app icon or a public health statistics UI, and only appears in the phone’s system settings under the title “Massachusetts Department of Heath.”

At best the rollout can be described as odd, and at worst a creepy attempt to stealthily track the movements of everyday Americans.

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Also not new to smartphones or even GPS. They knew what tower you were connecting to, in fact the sms texts were merely riding on the back of the check-in to tower that the phones were doing all along to maintain your active service connection to the carrier. So yeah they have always known your approximate location.