- Earlier this year ICE ordered new vehicles equipped with smartphone-tracking hardware.
- Cell-tower simulating “Stingray” devices gather records on phones in their vicinity.
- Luckily, Android 16 includes new measure for detecting when you may be monitored in this fashion.
Wanna bet that feature will soon be cut by google? For your safety of course.
GrapheneOS my beloved
Only if they supported more devices
GrapheneOS is built from Android, right? Wouldn’t subsequent versions of GrapheneOS lose this functionality as well?
Only if Google makes such sweeping changes to make forward-porting the feature impossible.
Must be frustrating to keep so many patch sets alive after a while. Any insight into how they do this in a scalable way?
It’s hardware dependency I was told so no.
You will need the pixel 10 device to get this feature
Ah, shame. I still consider the 10 to be a downgrade from my 9 Pro. I want Battery Share.
I’m also less likely to be subjected to surveillance, I’m guessing, as I live in northern Europe. Hopefully. 😅
These devices are installed in public spaces. Think Transit stations.
I doubt north european security services operate any differently
Plus you got russia all up yalls ass too
Right, but considering where in northern Europe I live… I don’t think we’re a target before it’s time to upgrade phones at least, honestly. 😅
They may ban it like how the Spanish government did in Catalonia 🤡