Google! The name is all too familiar and has been working to address the privacy of Android users, but according to a recent study, the company has been accessing user data through apps like Google Dialer and Messages. The two apps are pre-installed on Android phones, and according to research, they send data to Google without the user's consent.
According to research, Douglas Leith, a professor of computer science at Trinity College, pointed out that Google collects information about users, including SHA26 hash of messages, timestamps, contact information, inbound and outbound call logs, and all call durations.
Google has been careful to avoid disclosing the data collection policies of its Dialer and Messages apps, which is clearly a breach. Last year, Leith made his point, and he then communicated his findings to Google and suggested improvements, which have taken some significant improvements to avoid such privacy violations. Google also proactively explained why it collects information from dialers and sms apps.
Google explains this as: It's a bug! Obviously, this explanation did not give Google the effect of self-justification. Instead, we recommend that future Android versions and app stores speed up the process of improvements, make consumers feel comfortable with Google's apps, and most importantly, because security issues can be life-threatening in extreme social contexts. The current russian-Ukrainian war may be a realistic portrayal!
Since the outbreak of this war, many Russian generals have been martyred, and recently a deputy commander of the Russian army has also been decapitated, and the outside world agrees that Ukraine uses AI technology for face recognition. But the question is whether Ukraine has ever used facial recognition technology? To say no, many people may not believe it, but if face recognition is used, then where does the technology come from? From the news released so far, it can be understood that a US company once opened a free face database to Ukraine, which is mainly used to identify Russian combatants and intelligence personnel, and this database has 10 billion face images, of which 2 billion face data are Russian. It is clear that the reason why Ukraine was able to carry out accurate decapitations is that the data of these 2 billion faces is indispensable!
This is terrible, there are still 8 billion face data, I'm afraid you and I have a share, although I and other ordinary people have little use value for beautiful countries, but when the massive data is collected, what kind of qualitative changes can be produced, it is unpredictable.
Speaking of which, the question is exposed, and that's how the 8 billion faces were collected? Let's first look at Tesla, a fighter in the field of electric vehicles, which collects a total of 20 kinds of user data, while Audi and BMW rank second and third, respectively, and collect 19 kinds of user information and 16 kinds of information. At present, the number of Tesla new energy vehicles in mainland China is about 200,000, so the personal information of the owners of these 200,000 vehicles may have been exposed to Tesla's information database. Looking at the hundreds of millions of iPhone users currently on the mainland, is their personal privacy and data security really as safe as the Americans guarantee? I don't believe it anyway!
Therefore, for ordinary people, choosing to use Apple mobile phones they consider more about quality, and there is not much attention to data security. Everyone has the freedom to choose, and in today's information environment, everyone can run naked in front of big data, but I would rather run in the mainland than expose myself to the Americans!