“If it can be done and it is done, for example, for crimes such as child pornography, for intellectual property, which is stealing, they should have to do it too.” - LaLiga chief Javier Tebas
Ah yes, two equivalent crimes: CSAM and… um… watching sports without paying
And people say slippery slope is a fallacy. I guess hopefully it is in this case.
The slippery slope is a fallacy only because there’s no proof things will go one way or the other. You can use slippery slope to say ridiculous things. E.g “if we let gays marry, it’ll be pedos next” is a good example of the fallacy whereas “if we let private corporations spy on us for a good reason, they’ll expand their powers to extract even more profit” is not, but either way, you need to know the context (which is that corporations serve to extract maximum possible wealth and have no morals).
Hey, they’re not equivalent! The second one is a lot worse! Say the shareholders
They fucking finally said the quiet part loud! Make a dystopian filtering system with CSAM as an excuse, then use it for filtering piracy, unauthorized gambling sites (but just because they’re not paying the taxes, not because actually caring about the citizens mental health), and so on
The UK just passed this exact law. They say it’s to protect children, but it requires all companies to build a backdoor into their end to end encryption specifically so they can spy on users for “inappropriate material that is harmful to children.”
bu- but it’s for the children!!!
These assholes used to spy on people - their app used to keep users’ microphones open, so that together with location, they could detect whether bars were airing football matches, and try to find unlicenced ones.
I really hope they don’t get away with deleting apps from people’s phones.
As soon as google starts removing sideloaded apps forcefully without play protect, will be the time when Apples market share increases.
Apk sideloading freedom is the only major difference left between Android and iOS
You realize that on Apple you can never have these apps at all?
If google removes them retroactively from your device or blocks them from being used what’s the difference?
you can hide from google and install it anyway. You can’t hide from apple. They control 100% of your device
How can it do that?
And won’t people just use piracy websites?
And Google already scans users phones and deletes apps?
it’s an emergency function that google silently introduced in all phones years ago. Theoretically it should be used if an app is widespread malware
What do I need to uninstall to disable this ‘feature’?
the only workaround is to install a custom ROM without google play and google services
That’s overkill, with a rooted phone you can simply freeze (might be able to freeze it with ADB as well) or delete the Play store (it’s the Play Store where this Malware lives). GMS and Account Manager will work just fine without the Play store.
Or, like the other person said you can just disable Play Protect.
android xD
Is GrapheneOS affected?
No, since on GrapheneOS Google Play Store/Services doesn’t have permission to silently install/uninstall apps. They are sandboxed like any other app (i.e. F-Droid).
Disable “Play Protect” in your phone’s Security settings
Is there any evidence that this will really remove Google’s ability to (a) see what’s on your phone, and (b) delete whatever they want?
No, because they can always push anything over Play Services updates. But right now it does disable it.
