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This notification comes from an app that is designed to tell a remote user where you are located. That was enough to spook me. I dismissed the notification, de
by totalZero 7y ago
This notification comes from an app that is designed to tell a remote user where you are located. That was enough to spook me.
I dismissed the notification, deleted as much data from Samsung apps as possible, and turned my phone off.
Rough moment to be a Samsung executive. They're just about the only top smartphone manufacturer that doesn't manufacture the vast majority of their handsets in China so presumably they are in position to take some market share from the competition. Yet today we are seeing some fear about contagion in SK, and this very strange notification that -- benign or not -- is going to scare some users (e.g. me). I for one would like to see a formal statement made to the public.
- mbag 7y agoThis spooked me as well. I never used any of the Samsung apps on my phone and never created the Samsung account. Since apps come pre-installed, it was in the back of my head that Samsung could access the data anyway, but I dismissed it as company suicide to do something like this. Since so many people received notification, it could be that some "Samsung God mode" exists.
- totalZero 7y agoOn the idea that taking and sharing your personal data without an opt-in would be company suicide: Samsung has already hit this sort of scandal with its smart televisions and nobody really cared. https://www.cnet.com/news/samsungs-warning-our-smart-tvs-record-your-living-room-chatter/ https://www.cnet.com/news/samsungs-warning-our-smart-tvs-rec... The expectation that the free market will keep companies from spying on us...well, it would be nice, but increasingly it seems to be wishful thinking.
- hawski 7y agoSamsung can already do OTA updates. Their software runs on the phone. You already have to put some trust on them.
- chaosite 7y agoAFAIK, LG also doesn't manufacture in China. It used to manufacture in SK until last year, then it moved production to Vietnam.
- totalZero 7y agoLG and Samsung both manufacture a small portion of their handsets in China if I'm not mistaken. But yes, LG did move South Korean production to Vietnam. Aside from these countries, LG also produces in Brazil and India: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lg-elec-mobile/lg-electronics-to-suspend-mobile-phones-production-in-south-korea-this-year-yonhap-idUSKCN1S0104 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lg-elec-mobile/lg-electro... However, Samsung represents approximately a third of the world's smartphone market, while LG is something like 3% -- tagging along behind Samsung, Huawei, Apple, Xiaomi, and Oppo.
- OrgNet 7y agoMy LG G8 ThinQ was made in Vietnam