The tech giant claims millions of people were sent a warning before the deadly earthquake earlier this year.
  • FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Google prepared an optional Earthquake alert system

    If you read between the lines of their ‘earthquake system’, it is obviously polling your phone on a very short and granular basis and pulling movement data, which is something no one seems to be talking about. This is the kind of data collection that pisses me off, and they get away with this by trying to pass this off as some sort of wonderful life saving system that I bet no one even knew they were contributing data to.

    • Derin@lemmy.beru.co
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      1 year ago

      Gross, you have a point.

      My Librem phone finally arrived (to a friend in the US), I guess I’m going to have to try using it the next time I’m there.