• Earlier this year ICE ordered new vehicles equipped with smartphone-tracking hardware.
  • Cell-tower simulating “Stingray” devices gather records on phones in their vicinity.
  • Luckily, Android 16 includes new measure for detecting when you may be monitored in this fashion.
  • katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    6 days ago

    too bad android 16 also has the garbage “registered developers” and blocking apk installs insuring i’ll never upgrade.

    • Eager Eagle@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      I’m using f-droid on 16 without issues (so far)

      That’s coming next year AFAIK, and I don’t think staying on 15 will prevent it

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      6 days ago

      Good but it isn’t the version of Android it is in Google Play Services. So however far back Google is pushing the current version for.