• smoothbrain coldtakes@lemmy.ca
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          1 year ago

          Using Google products has always been a “privacy nightmare” - it’s not like this is some mega open source phone or anything it’s literally Google’s flagship. Is this really surprising? Playing with fire gets you burned.

        • Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          In what way ? Everything you do on phone Google has access to and therefore any govt body as well.

          Privacy on a phone is a myth unless you use a modded phone

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        1 year ago

        Even ignoring all the privacy issues with that, it’s kinda shit to unnecessarily lose phone features when you’ve got no signal

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          1 year ago

          That’s how phones have always worked. As long as they are not automatically ingesting data from people without permission. I don’t see an issue with this. At least in this instance we have some choice in what we send or don’t. It’s no more privacy nightmare than mid-Journey doll-e or any of the others.