a heads up if you're on an android device, check your apps / running processes for Android System SafetyCore its been recently installed and enabled automatically currently it's scanning your photos and tagging stuff as nude or explicit, while also having full network permissions - ThreadSky

kobold.dev • 78 days ago

a heads up if you're on an android device, check your apps / running processes for Android System SafetyCore

its been recently installed and enabled automatically

currently it's scanning your photos and tagging stuff as nude or explicit, while also having full network permissions

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xanderzzyzx.bsky.social•72 days ago

Thanks for the heads-up, I got rid of it from my phone.

chimerachimera.bsky.social•78 days ago

*Laughs in old pos phone that struggles on browsers by default*

geopurple.bsky.social•78 days ago

Thanks

ferretrip.bsky.social•71 days ago

Noooooot finding it...am I searching wrong? I went into settings and searched.

dramaqueenkjf.bsky.social•72 days ago

Thank you!

aldarapal.bsky.social•77 days ago

Thank you for warning us about this. I have a Google Pixel phone that I absolutely want to destroy. I need to clear out a bunch of stuff from it and get a new phone

snarkypants.bsky.social•70 days ago

Since you're on the side of the benevolent IT and not Stephen King's, I gotta warn you one paranoiac to another. When there's a war on drugs in a police state, they can plant drugs to any inconvenient activists. In a war on trans through the child predation narrative next stop is planting bad pics.

gwienneth.bsky.social•78 days ago

Existed on my note 9, has never used any mobile data, uninstalled it.

littlemewsaina.bsky.social•78 days ago

What would it do with nude photos 🫠 would my fbi agent see them?

snarkypants.bsky.social•70 days ago

Blackmail. Determining if you're queer in any way to kick you from jobs and make you a target. It could theoretically catch predators, but in a society ran by predators they'll use it to do any number on you.

littlemewsaina.bsky.social•70 days ago

Damn. Back into the closet I go. 🥲

snarkypants.bsky.social•70 days ago

Eh, your social media already reveals enough, you might have to take a stand or play cute and unthreatening. My digital footprint might be feeding other weirdos, so unless it's forcibly scrubbed, I'll keep my identity eggs in different baskets.

littlemewsaina.bsky.social•70 days ago

I'm cute and threatening though, oh nooo 🥺

kobold.dev•78 days ago

the app promises to be a local scan only

just with extremely vague promises and still possessing network permissions

so who knows :D

littlemewsaina.bsky.social•78 days ago

My FBI agent probably be doing lewd things with the nudes they've been spying on xD

makooti.bsky.social•77 days ago

Thanks, i delorted it

exy.bsky.social•77 days ago

Thanks for the headsup, deleted it

evehawthorne.bsky.social•78 days ago

Sure enough, it was on my phone. It's gone now

dimadimad.bsky.social•77 days ago

deleted, thx for the heads up!!!

naughtykyuubi69.bsky.social•77 days ago

making me want to go back to a shitty old nokia good only for text messages and phone calls.

kobold.dev•78 days ago

considering google's turn towards outward and inward discrimination, while wanting to utilize / sell AI for military and weapons use, i would not give this company the benefit of the doubt when it comes to secretive scanning systems added to your phones without your consent

ferretrip.bsky.social•71 days ago

And to think, their slogan starting out was, "Don’t be evil."

lydas.bsky.social•78 days ago

found it on my phone and uninstalled it. do you have any more info about where this came from and how i can prevent it from getting installed again?

kobold.dev•78 days ago

there's a fuss brewing if you search the name of the application

seems to be some sort of safety initiative that promises to be local only, but still has full network permissions and is making people nervous

google hasn't mentioned much outside of vague promises on the app listing

somefoxyouknow.bsky.social•72 days ago

So glad this came across my feed from someone reposting. Older phone, so don't update much. Bam, there it was. Uninstalled immediately. Damn Google.

fishladyabs.bsky.social•78 days ago

JFC

Is there an Apple equivalent?
I guess if there was we’d have no way to turn it off…

ghostlypurr.bsky.social•78 days ago

Because a tech giant like Google, which is currently kissing a fascist's ass, is totally who should be allowed to use AI to go through your phone 🙄

anhay.bsky.social•78 days ago

Weirdly enough, non of my devices are running it

kobold.dev•78 days ago

i'm on an outdated google pixel phone which is probably one of the earlier targets for rollout, the application automatically installed and running as of a few weeks ago

just fully expecting this to make its way across the android ecosystem

anhay.bsky.social•78 days ago

ill keep my eyes open for sure, but this device im on, samsung galaxy tab a9, is fairly recent

tauon.dev•72 days ago

they *say* it's on-device, but why does it have full network permissions

clarence112.bsky.social•78 days ago

Uninstalled that garbage

irnoodles.bsky.social•77 days ago

I'm bad with phones, how do I find and disable this ?

jalixe.bsky.social•77 days ago

uninstall from the play store, it was hidden from my settings https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.safetycore

irnoodles.bsky.social•72 days ago

Thanks for helping out! Just got it off my my phone

kobold.dev•77 days ago

usually just going to Settings > Apps or the equivalent, should show up in the list if you can see the Android System apps there

meimeimeixie.purplepanda.gay•72 days ago

this one seems to hide itself from there. you can only see it if you search for it on the play store

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