I want to know if it’s reasonable to expect a degree of privacy with stock android.

  • anon5621@lemmy.ml
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    8 hours ago

    Google play service have unstoable access to everything on they have like root rights + vendors spyware like on miui there are dozens of bad system apps

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      5 hours ago

      Understood (I think) so just to be clear, Google could be collecting:

      • All signal Messages
      • Device Location at all times
      • Anything displayed on the screen
      • Audio around device (microphone) at all times
      • All files on the device

      Is it accurate to say they have the power to do that with stock Android?

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        4 hours ago

        Not so sure about the signal messages if they’re stored properly encrypted by the app. But yeah, technically they could probably take screenshots. You could do a MiTM with a https proxy and look at wireshark to see what it sends.

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          2 hours ago

          You could do a MiTM with a https proxy and look at wireshark to see what it sends.

          Surely a professional must have looked into this by now?

          Also I don’t see how Google wouldn’t be able to read Signal messages if they have full unstoppable access to everything? If the user can read it, surely Google can too?