How you can protect your privacy from ICE's latest investment in smartphone-tracking hardware.
  • Earlier this year ICE ordered new vehicles equipped with smartphone-tracking hardware.
  • Cell-tower simulating “Stingray” devices gather records on phones in their vicinity.
  • Luckily, Android 16 includes new measure for detecting when you may be monitored in this fashion.
  • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 month ago

    GrapheneOS is built from Android, right? Wouldn’t subsequent versions of GrapheneOS lose this functionality as well?

    • azuth@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      1 month ago

      Only if Google makes such sweeping changes to make forward-porting the feature impossible.

      • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        Must be frustrating to keep so many patch sets alive after a while. Any insight into how they do this in a scalable way?