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> The only things in my pocket are my wallet and keys. My phone[1] could probably be used for remote surveillance, but without a warrant, that's a crime. Sure,
by capableweb 7y ago
> The only things in my pocket are my wallet and keys. My phone[1] could probably be used for remote surveillance, but without a warrant, that's a crime.
Sure, a bit naive, but I digress. Even if it's illegal, it would be better if it was simply not possible in the first place. It's optionally having that functionality, rather than building solutions considering privacy in the first place.
> without any type of "voice assistant" app
I don't think you can uninstall Siri or Google Assistant on neither iPhone or Android, so that point is kind of null. Only with root or custom roms you'll be able to do that.
- nikofeyn 7y agoyou have to give explicit permissions for those things. google assistant doesn't work on my phone because i never gave it permission to enable that feature.
- rorykoehler 7y agome neither but i have no way of verifying if this is the truth or not without installing a vpn with a firewall and analysing the logs
- capableweb 7y ago> you have to give explicit permissions for those things. google assistant doesn't work on my phone because i never gave it permission to enable that feature. I wouldn't trust that whatever people who sit in power doesn't have a way of overriding that.
- anticensor 7y agoThose toggles are not inert, it does loudly throw errors if I revoke any permission of Google Play Services