Explanation about gapps spyware from comments here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/d8c9pv/i_used_to_be_a_skeptic_but_now_im_almost_certain
On Android, Play Services is a multi-app layer of APIs for all sorts of functionalities. Apps that have Play Services built into their framework communicate with GPServices and GSF pretty much all the time. One immediately noticeable function of this are C2D messages, or GCM. This is how you get seamless notifications on these sorts of apps.
Now, GPServices is also the spyware hub on stock Android. On SDK 21, it demands at least 269 permissions. On Marshmallow devices onwards, you can pretend to grant or deny user permissions for apps. You can't do this to GPServices, though.
There's a framework that apps use to communicate with GPServices. I think it's called Shared Preferences. If, for example, you deny IG of the Record Audio permission, GPServices still listens to everything you say, as well as ambient sound. Keywords, keyphrases, and "sound bites" are noted and parsed.
IG can and will request this data locally, then process it properly utilizing its many analytics build tools. It's then sent to as many Facecrook servers as stated in the intent. Of course, this happens in a matter of seconds.
This is assuming you denied IG of the RA permission in the first place. If you didn't....
The other thing you want to consider, actually the culprit here, is your camera. The process is similar to that of your microphone that I described above.
This is just a reminder that GPServices has constant access to your device's cameras and microphone, and it is ALWAYS recording. Even if you deny permissions for some spyware apps, they have other ways to surveil.
This is why there is a VERY NOTICEABLE difference in one's battery life the moment GPServices (and GSF) is completely removed from a device (the ultimate step in degoogling an Android device).
A smart person knows the importance of removing the cameras and microphone. You either wisen up, or let them keep telling you these events are "just coincidences".
#gapps #why #spyware #permissions #mic
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/d8c9pv/i_used_to_be_a_skeptic_but_now_im_almost_certain
On Android, Play Services is a multi-app layer of APIs for all sorts of functionalities. Apps that have Play Services built into their framework communicate with GPServices and GSF pretty much all the time. One immediately noticeable function of this are C2D messages, or GCM. This is how you get seamless notifications on these sorts of apps.
Now, GPServices is also the spyware hub on stock Android. On SDK 21, it demands at least 269 permissions. On Marshmallow devices onwards, you can pretend to grant or deny user permissions for apps. You can't do this to GPServices, though.
There's a framework that apps use to communicate with GPServices. I think it's called Shared Preferences. If, for example, you deny IG of the Record Audio permission, GPServices still listens to everything you say, as well as ambient sound. Keywords, keyphrases, and "sound bites" are noted and parsed.
IG can and will request this data locally, then process it properly utilizing its many analytics build tools. It's then sent to as many Facecrook servers as stated in the intent. Of course, this happens in a matter of seconds.
This is assuming you denied IG of the RA permission in the first place. If you didn't....
The other thing you want to consider, actually the culprit here, is your camera. The process is similar to that of your microphone that I described above.
This is just a reminder that GPServices has constant access to your device's cameras and microphone, and it is ALWAYS recording. Even if you deny permissions for some spyware apps, they have other ways to surveil.
This is why there is a VERY NOTICEABLE difference in one's battery life the moment GPServices (and GSF) is completely removed from a device (the ultimate step in degoogling an Android device).
A smart person knows the importance of removing the cameras and microphone. You either wisen up, or let them keep telling you these events are "just coincidences".
#gapps #why #spyware #permissions #mic
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