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“Management has lost all moral compass”: Android's head of security slams Google's door (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 days ago by Wrongdoer2@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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The reasons of his departure? Military AI, surveillance of Europeans, ethical principles erased.

René Mayrhofer has been protecting the security of your Android smartphone for nine years. He just quit Google for a reason that directly concerns you: the company signed a deal allowing the Pentagon to use its AI for classified operations, and the man who secured your smartphone believes these tools will “probably be used against” European citizens.

Here is the rest of article in French: https://www.lesnumeriques.com/societe-numerique/la-direction-a-perdu-toute-boussole-morale-le-chef-de-la-securite-d-android-claque-la-porte-de-google-n257431.html

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[–] clb92@feddit.dk 88 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

In my opinion, René helped Google lose "all moral compass" by very actively preventing users from having control over their own devices. Under René Mayrhofer as Android Head of Security, it has become harder and harder to use rooted Android phones, because of the Play Integrity API. Even the fucking McDonalds app requires strong integrity, for some reason, so it can be hard to get working on a rooted Android phone.

Android was supposed to be the open operating system for phones, but Google is slowly eroding away all the openness Android had.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 2 points 17 hours ago

Democrats just i agree with you 99%. The 1% is the word "slowly". That went away a couple of years ago, now they're jusspeed-running it.

[–] Shayeta@feddit.org 15 points 1 day ago

Embrace, extend, extinguish.

[–] FluorineBalloon@programming.dev 29 points 1 day ago

Because "strong integrity" in that context just means "tamper resistant user data pipeline." They don't give the fuckidiest of fucks about app integrity, privacy, or security; they care that their ads get through to you, and every drop of your personal info and activity data gets though to them.