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Google Will Track Your Location 'Every 15 Minutes'–'Even with GPS Disabled'
“You can’t say no to Google’s surveillance,” warns alarming new report.
The team “proxied the inbound and outbound traffic and used a custom security certificate to decrypt and examine the communications,” albeit rooting the phone disabled some features and so the intercepted data was not complete. ForbesMicrosoft Windows ‘Critical Vulnerability’ Warning—You Have 72 Hours To Update Your PCBy Zak Doffman Beyond the location and other data collection, Cybernews also claims the device reached out to Google for new code to execute, opening up security risks. Meanwhile, the researchers warn that “the deep integration of surveillance systems in [Google’s] ecosystem may leave users vulnerable to privacy violations.” And while this test was specifically for the new Pixel Pro devices, it’s clearly a wider issue.
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