New features in Android to help you stay safe from unwanted Bluetooth tracking
New features in Android to help you stay safe from unwanted Bluetooth tracking
Android’s unknown tracker alerts automatically notify you if an unfamiliar Bluetooth tracker is moving with you to help you take action to protect yourself.As part of ou…
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Android has improved its unknown tracker alerts to notify users faster and more often, and has introduced two new features to help users protect themselves from unwanted tracking. The key findings are the introduction of two new features: Temporarily Pause Location and Find Nearby, which aim to provide users with more control and privacy when dealing with unknown trackers.
Safe from unwanted tracking*
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As always I feel like it's a nice feature but obviously Google is juicing more data from you. I had the popup and it basically required you to let the OS activate Bluetooth on its own to scan and map the surrounding devices. It was the prerequisite to benefit from the tracking detection and the "find my device even if it's disconnected" feature. You become a node on the mesh you draw for them. No thanks
If only they were in AOSP
True. The best move for privacy would be to make the solution open source and available for anyone.