Per one tech forum this week: “Google has quietly installed an app on all Android devices called ‘Android System SafetyCore’. It claims to be a ‘security’ application, but whilst running in the background, it collects call logs, contacts, location, your microphone, and much more making this application ‘spyware’ and a HUGE privacy concern. It is strongly advised to uninstall this program if you can. To do this, navigate to 'Settings’ > 'Apps’, then delete the application.”

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    10 days ago

    They were not “suspected” they had to be matches to actual CSAM.

    And after that a reduced quality copy was shown to an actual human, not an AI like in Googles case.

    So the false positive would slightly inconvenience a human checker for 15 seconds, not get you Swatted or your account closed

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      10 days ago

      Yeah so here’s the next problem - downscaling attacks exists against those algorithms too.

      https://scaling-attacks.net/

      Also, even if those attacks were prevented they’re still going to look through basically your whole album if you trigger the alert