Received notice of a change to the service in my inbox today. Seems icky to me.
Devices in the network use Bluetooth to scan for nearby items. If other devices detect your items, they’ll securely send the locations where the items were detected to Find My Device. Your Android devices will do the same to help others find their offline items when detected nearby
Your devices’ locations will be encrypted using the PIN, pattern, or password for your Android devices. They can only be seen by you and those you share your devices with in Find My Device. They will not be visible to Google or used for other purposes.
ETA: here’s the link to opt out: opt out of the network
This is what apple has done for years but nobody complainted
You at least know your paying for it with apple. Googles customers won’t be the ones using this service.
What do you mean? This service from google is for android devices and hence google devices.
Google’s customers are advertiser’s not android users.
You might think that this is different with apple - it is not.
GrapheneOS
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Is DivestOS any better in this respect?
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Hopefully the team figures out a way to disable this
Settings > Google > All Settings > Find My Device > Off
The team has done it! Hurrah!.
So you’re implying that if the phone doesn’t have a google account signed in, it won’t even have the find my device when powered off? Sounds good.
If you cared about privacy you wouldn’t be using any Google products.
