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Google delays its upgraded Find My Device network until Apple can add safety alerts(www.theverge.com)

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Also, Android users will soon begin seeing notifications for unknown item trackers that are traveling with them — no separate app downloads or installs required.

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Big P@feddit.uk
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Nice, an actual standard that Google and Apple are agreeing to?

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notfromhere@lemmy.one
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Exactly. When does that ever happen? Covid 19 contact tracing was the pretense to get this tech through the door. Literally government trackers in everyone’s pockets.

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ScaredDuck@sopuli.xyz
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I don’t think so? There’s “Find My” network from Apple and there’s this one from Google. The only intercompatibility planned is the alerts for unknown trackers following you.

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Google and Apple have built out their own private ‘little internet’ by turning the users of their products into their own personal nodes that they have access to and control.

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money_loo@1337lemmy.com
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And thank god for that, because it helped me find my lost AirPods when I wasn’t quite sure where I left them out and about.

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Ascyron@lemmy.one
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Is this saying that Google will get every device to log every Bluetooth device it detects, just in case one of them is then reported as missing? Like, what in the holy overreach stalker BS is this?

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m-p{3}@lemmy.caOP
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As if it’s not already gathering all bluetooth devices in range already.

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zhunk@beehaw.org
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Remember that Google Streetview cars were sniffing Wifi networks back in 2010.

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Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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For what purpose? And also what does sniffing mean in this context? Just like… finding them, or trying to connect to insecure ones or what?

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AbraNidoran@beehaw.org
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From what I recall they were saving all the packets being broadcast as they drove past. (as opposed to only logging SSIDs)

Edit: Yup, it is as I had thought - but also it was more intentional than I had remembered: https://www.wired.com/2012/05/google-wifi-fcc-investigation/

(unpaywalled link) https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2F2012%2F05%2Fgoogle-wifi-fcc-investigation%2F

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𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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Nice.

I’ll be sticking with AirGuard for now though, much prefer its more comprehensive UI

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