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The “Nude” Ultimatum: Privacy is Dead (the.unknown-universe.co.uk)

submitted 3 days ago by TheIPW@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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The UK government is giving Apple and Google three months to build on-device scanning infrastructure. This isn't about child safety; it's about the end of private devices and the death of the "nothing to hide" fallacy.

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How? Android is open source. You can just fork it

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

All Android forks are, to maintain compatibility with the used apps (LinageOS, e/OS, Degoogled Android ...)

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ok you fork it and create a FOSS mobile OS. If it was that easy we would already have alternatives. The core is open source but google has been and is trying it's best to slowly take over the OS. I'm honestly not very knowledgeable about android so I don't remember the exact details.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 0 points 2 days ago

We don't need to, because AOSP works great.