Hidden Android problems.
Google has a difficult Android problem that has just been highlighted. The spatial race between Google and Samsung and between Android and the iPhone has exposed long issues to be addressed, issues buried within the core of Android.
Google continues to narrow the gap on the iPhone, with the next Android 15 and Android 16 bringing security and intimacy updates. And while Samsung owners have endured a disappointing reception for their update, this is now immediate and it seems that Android 16 will be treated differently. But there is a difficult black hole that remains, the hidden tracking that is impossible to stop. This is bad news for all Android users, but especially for Galaxy and Pixel users who buy “intimacy” built -in equipment.
The matter is old versus new. You will have noticed that the announcements of it from Google and Samsung Stress On-Device, processing intimacy when checking new features. The latest discovery of Google fraud “protects your privacy by processing everything on the device”, and even its new controversial photo scan “is done on the device and all the images or results and the specific warnings are private to the user.”
Samsung who pushed Hybrid he before Google-goes further, “Galaxy’s access to his personalization,” says, “from the beginning of the first phone of Samsung to our constant innovation and the device is never to compromise in intimacy.”
This is new. But then we come to old. As I reported earlier this month, a study published by Trinity College, Dublin has exhibited Google’s decision to follow Android phones through “cookies, identifiers and other data that quietly stores in Android devices, through pre-installed applications. This happens despite the fact that there is no “no consent to be stored to save any of this data and no one left”.
There is a legal dimension for this tracking, which the research team says has been exposed for the first time in their report. That, they say, is a “waking call” for data regulators to “start properly protecting” Android phone users.
Google responded to this legal point, saying “The researcher admits in the report that they are not legally qualified, and we disagree with their legal analysis. User privacy is a key advantage for Android and we are committed to respecting all laws and regulations of intimacy.”
But for the tracking substance, Trinity’s team says “Informed Google about our findings, and published the publication to allow them to respond. They gave a short answer, stating that they would not comment on the legal aspects (they were not required to comment on these). in cookies etc. guarded by their software. “
Google told me “This report identifies a number of Google technologies and tools that support how we bring useful products and services to our users.” There is nothing to suggest that this tracking on the device will be reviewed given these concerns.
When adding to the delayed depreciation of the cookies to the chrome and the equally controversial resurrection of digital fingertips, start seeing a pattern. Despite the focus on processing it on the device, the bases have not changed. It suggests that we may be seeing a push of the intimacy of one that is more marketing than related to privacy.
This leaves Samsung on a strange forgotten land. It is pushing to catch the iPhone, but it is associated with Android. And that means that these types of inheritance tracking issues affect all its users. At the same time, it cannot promote security adjustments or OS updates at the same pace as pixel because it does not control both its hardware and basic software.
It would be good to see a complete summary of the hidden tracking that develops without consent or giving up – this means pursuing the “silent” Android Android and the digital fingertips. It would be good to see the predetermined opposition presented throughout the table. It is missing that each of those marketing messages in the device may need a star.