#Google confirms Android dev verification will have free and paid tiers, no public list of devs
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/google-confirms-android-dev-verification-will-have-free-and-paid-tiers-no-public-list-of-devs/

Is FDroid in trouble?

Today we look at the Google app developer verification program and the impact it will have on F-Droid. Is this about security or something else?
#android #fdroid #google

00:00 - My Early Phone Experience
06:15 - Google's Developer Verification
08:30 - F-Droid Responds
10:38 - Malware on the Play Store
18:00 - Criminals Gonna Criminal
21:17 - F-Droid Distribution Issues
28:30 - All About Security?
30:15 - Rights and Solutions

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⚡️How #Google’s #SensorVault Turned an Innocent Man Into a Suspect

📹 I recently had the opportunity to speak at the Peak Prosperity Summit 2025, where I shared how tools like Google’s SensorVault have turned innocent people into suspects. Jorge Molina’s story out of Arizona is one of many that shows how mass surveillance and data collection can destroy lives.

This isn’t a conspiracy theory — it’s the system we’re living in.

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#FDroid Accuses #Google of Restricting Sideloading with New Verification Rules
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#Google's proposed #Android changes won't save sideloading

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-changes-third-party-app-stores-3613409/

#Google #search #why

Keep Android Open
https://keepandroidopen.org

In August 2025, #Google announced that starting next year, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the #Android platform without first registering centrally with Google. This registration will involve:

Paying a fee to Google
Agreeing to Google’s Terms and Conditions
Providing government identification
Uploading evidence of the developer’s private signing key
Listing all current and future application identifiers
What this means for your rights
➤ You, the consumer, purchased your Android device believing in Google’s promise that it was an open computing platform and that you could run whatever software you choose on it. Instead, starting next year, they will be non-consensually pushing an update to your operating system that irrevocably blocks this right and leaves you at the mercy of their judgement over what software you are permitted to trust.

➤ You, the creator, can no longer develop an app and share it directly with your friends, family, and community without first seeking Google’s approval. The promise of Android — and a marketing advantage it has used to distinguish itself against the iPhone — has always been that it is “open”. But Google clearly feels that they have enough of a lock on the Android ecosystem, along with sufficient regulatory capture, that they can now jettison this principle with prejudice and impunity.

➤ You, the state, are ceding the rights of your citizens and your own digital sovereignty to a company with a track record of complying with the extrajudicial demands of authoritarian regimes to remove perfectly legal apps that they happen to dislike. The software that is critical to the running of your businesses and governments will be at the mercy of the opaque whims of a distant and unaccountable corporation.

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#Google #Chrome Secretly Tracks Your Phone—How To Stop It

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/11/11/secret-digital-id-how-google-chrome-silently-tracks-your-phone/

#why #stalking #surveillance #browser

#Google alleges now that it will allow users to sideload #Android apps without verification
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#Amazon & #Google have been sending secret messages to israel warning them when foreign authorities are investigating their data.

In a sane world, these companies would be fined into bankruptcy for abetting israeli criminal & espionage operations.

#why #bds

#Google has quietly started accessing #Gmail users’ private emails and attachments to train its #AI models

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2025/11/22/gmail-explainer-how-to-stop-google-ai-from-snooping-through-your-emails/

#stalking #surveillance #why

#Standford #Google #kamala harris

#Google's new #AluminiumOS project brings #Android to #PC: Here's what we know

https://www.androidauthority.com/aluminium-os-android-for-pcs-3619092/

#Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages With Your Employer

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/12/03/google-starts-sharing-all-your-text-messages-with-your-employer/

#Microsoft triggered a viral furor when it revealed a #Teams update to tell your company when you’re not at work. Now Google has done the same. Forget end-to-end encryption. A new Android update means your #RCS and #SMS texts are no longer private.

As reported by Android Authority, “Google is rolling out Android RCS Archival on Pixel (and other Android) phones, allowing employers to intercept and archive RCS chats on work-managed devices. In simpler terms, your employer will now be able to read your RCS chats in Google Messages despite end-to-end encryption.”

#why

#Google Confirms #Android Attacks-No Fix for Most #Samsung Users
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The Department of #War announced the launch of #Google Cloud's #Gemini for #Government as the first of several frontier #AI capabilities to be housed: “The future of American warfare”

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#Google #chrome #browser #why

https://www.makeuseof.com/dont-trust-chrome-anymore-heres-what-pushed-me-over-the-edge/

SOCIAL MEDIA SPIES EXPOSED: PROFILES VANISH AFTER

https://www.mintpressnews.com/social-media-spies-exposed/290506/

A network of hundreds of former agents of the CIA, FBI, and other three-letter agencies, as well as high State Department and NATO officials working at social media giants, such as Facebook, Google, TikTok, and Twitter. These individuals are overwhelmingly concentrated in politically sensitive departments, such as trust and safety, security, and content moderation, meaning that these ex-spies and intelligence officials are helping to influence what billions of people around the world see, read and hear (and deciding who is promoted and who is suppressed).

Social media is not a neutral global town square, but rather a battleground being silently fought over. Over the past decade, the U.S. national security state has infiltrated major social media platforms, in a successful attempt to manipulate the public debate and influence what the world sees and does not see. This influence operation dwarfs any schemes of which official enemy nations are accused.

#why #privacy #surveillance #CIA #NATO #Google #fb #Meta #tiktok #twitter