Monday, September 2, 2019

Google and privacy

How your smartphone tells your story: A dive into Android activity data

I read some of the tech comment on collecting statistical data from the android phone.  The gtechies explaining the tech were careful not to step past the boundaries of Secure ID. They wrote it up, explaining the data is made anonymous, then shipped to a server with some random generated, and secret password.

Wow, they got that all in.  What they mean is that this data collector will run under secure ID, run as a secure ID app.  It is a complicated contract, and involves you phone, your thumb print, and a server as trusted miner. Works fine under secure ID, follows the rules. They do not yet have secure ID, universally available for apps, but they are getting close.

Trump and the NSA need a rethink, here. They are not informed. But I would rather the two of them focus on deranged killers of the NRA, first.

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