Android's new anti-theft features
Android's new anti-theft features
Android rolls out theft protection features to safeguard your data before, during and after a theft incident.
cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/25062075
Automatic AI-powered screen lock for when your phone is snatched. Theft Detection Lock is a powerful new feature that uses Google AI to sense if someone snatches your phone from your hand and tries to run, bike or drive away.
Does it mean, that "Google AI" will running 24/7 in background, measuring how I use my phone, with an access to accelerometers data and location data?
Always has been.
Came here to say that
To me, it sounds like it will just need accelerometer sensor to detect tracking. My non root smartphone guide has already advised for a couple years to deploy and configure the Private Lock app from F-Droid to prevent data access for phone snatchers. It is FOSS, does not require trusting Google and Just Works™.
Google already does that
All of the biggest surveillance tracking was under the guise of anti-theft. Lojack, Intel ME anti theft, etc
"It's for your own good. trust us, we promise it's only for good stuff"
Ya, kinda feel that. I mean Apple has the best anti theft features,yet they are stolen regularly 😔
Apple's features are a joke. What Google has is better, and what they are doing now is magnitudes better. It was already done 5 years ago on Android, though, by a FOSS app.
But what good is a stolen locked iPhone?
Screen for parts and that’s about it.
How about you let me save the application data for myself and keep it secure on my equipment first, Google? Uff, going through the salvaging process of the data on my near-broken phone is being the most excruciating thing I've done recently because they just won't let you access and save it unless you rely on their cloud... which I might eventually just do, just wished it'd at least be a 100% safe way to get everything, but no, they had to put the decision to be backed up into the applications' hands ;-;
Best libre replacements?