Editing Talk:Google (section)

== Android System Safety Core ==

On or around February 10th, 2025, Louis uploaded a video that has since been deleted regarding the application silently installed on Google Play Services-enabled devices, "Consider uninstalling client side scanning utility from your android phone; androidsystemsafetycore".

While I find it very unusual that the deletion happened and no follow-up video was made, this is irrelevant to the wiki article, but I definitely feel like it at least deserves a spot as there's no mention of it anywhere on the wiki yet.

From a limited amount of research and no archive of that video, it appears to be a proprietary daemon that scans incoming and outgoing media to/from applications that implement it and add a blur filter according to the user's preferences, or family controls. It sounds a lot like the highly controversially designed CSAM filtering technologies Apple and the EU intended to roll out a few years ago.

Allegedly it all happens locally, but it is hard to trust a silently added proprietary blob that is designed to be used invisibly in many applications. I feel like it is a severe enough risk to be addressed on this page or as a separate wiki page.

: Created page as a jumping off point: https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/Android [[User:NDN|NDN]] ([[User talk:NDN|talk]]) 16:45, 14 February 2025 (UTC)