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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 @mayintoronto while deleting that, I spotted "android system intelligence" app and disabled that too 
@deborahh @jack @mayintoronto Likewise.
BTW: This guide explains more about it, and where to disable "Android System Intelligence":
https://www.androidauthority.com/android-system-intelligence-3325187/
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@sbb @deborahh @jack @mayintoronto maybe I'm just naïve about this, but why the panic? android system intelligence isn't some evil spyware, it literally just provides Live Caption and a couple other things that work completely offline. i get the suspicion bc its google but this feels more reactionary than genuine concern
@mrconorae @sbb @jack @mayintoronto I'm not techie enough to know what it is, but I'm disabling anything I suspect is gratuitous artificial *intelligence*. Perhaps it's badly named ... too bad. It's disabled now.
@deborahh @mrconorae @sbb @jack It provides a lot of accessibility features I use often. Keeping it on.
@mayintoronto I decided to re-enable it but to make many permissions "ask each time" so I can see what it is doing.
@sbb @deborahh @jack @mayintoronto
Thank you. Uninstalled.
I had looked at that one when I was removing garbage apps, but couldn't figure out whether it was important. It's gone now
@leeloo @sbb @deborahh @jack @mayintoronto I’m not finding it on Graphene, it seems to only pop up to install if you have Google messages https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/19193-android-system-safety-core