#cybersecurity #android #privacy
Android System SafetyCore (com.google.android.safetycore) provides common infrastructure that apps can use to protect users from unwanted content. The classification of content runs exclusively on your device and the results aren’t shared with Google.
As a system service, SafetyCore is only active when an application integrates with SafetyCore and specifically requests content to be classified. SafetyCore performs the classification on the device itself and doesn’t send identifiable data or any of the classified content or results to Google servers
For now there is no app that uses it. In future any app can use it to avoid setting up his system not on device.
Sensitive Content Warnings is an optional feature that blurs images that may contain nudity before viewing, and then prompts with a “speed bump” that contains help-finding resources and options, including to view the content.
Also only if you have play store it get installed automatically so is only for people that already trust google and have no problem using it. So far only know use will be an option to keep NSFW images distorted instead of automatically being displayed in messages app, if if the user don't want it can disable the option or change message app.
There is similar feat on TG too, some images are blurred before being manually shown.
GOS team stated they analized it and found out it does nothing more than what is described, for now (local scan, no data sent...).
Also on their sandboxes play services the auto-installation is blocked so is up to the user to choose what to do with it.
Another solution:
Uninstall the app and then install this placeholder app
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