Hi,
I noticed the android pay has been added to device administrators in my android phone. I haven't installed android pay.
I have google play sevices 8.3.01.
I found nothing in google search about it.
Do anyone know if this is a part of google updates?
Let's return to this thread as I observed certain behavior.
Once I installed bank application - google pay device admin appears however I don't have google pay application.
I figured out that it is embedded into google services framework.
I disabled admin using system tuner but despite that admin appears again in random times.
Obviously bank app uses some google's function or google framework scans device periodically and enables it again.
It is not related to use bank app, nor reboot, nor google wallet in general.
I wonder if anyone has an idea what function is triggering admin to be active again and again.
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I've had the basic 'email' and 'exchange services' apps disabled for a long time because all I've used is gmail since the beginning. (done via either rooted phone disable originally, or now just manage apps and disable, no root required) Now I have a reason to use them and while I can click 'enable' on exchange services, the email app is listed in the disabled section but the button on it says 'disable' still as if it was functional to start with..
What's the deal and how can I un-stick it?
I'm still working on this and haven't been able to make much headway. I've also found that I can't install the google keyboard because it errors out saying 'already exists'.
Any helpful information welcome.
Hi Developers
With Admob SDK now being a part of Google Play Services, I am not sure about the following:
Will the Admob ads work also on the devices without Google Play Services installed? Or do I have to make sure they are available?
According to Google Play Services developer instructions, availability should be checked using the GooglePlayServicesUtil.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable method. However, I am quite sure I read somewhere, that the ads should work even without Play Services installed on the device...
Thank You
Okay, based on my testing, Google Play Services are not required to be present on the device - Ads are shown as usual.
Apparently, referencing google-play-services_lib is sufficient.
FreakSense: Online Privacy Shield is able, once downloaded and installed on our Android smartphones or tablet, to scan and do a search on all the applications installed on the device that we have access to our online profiles. The search can be carried out to discover the applications that have access to our data from Facebook, Yahoo !, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Instagram and Flickr. These are the main ones, but you can add other online services.
Online Privacy Shield also will catalog the software used on the PC
What might seem strange is that it should be listed not only the applications that you have currently installed on your device, but also applications that have also uninstalled a long time or you have installed on your PC. But what assures us that not Online Privacy Shield does just what he fights for? I mean, who assures us that it does not store our data?
The answer lies in the fact that, in addition to being specified in the description on the Play Store, whenever we want to scan an online service, we have to re-enter again our data.
cloudyjohn said:
FreakSense: Online Privacy Shield is able, once downloaded and installed on our Android smartphones or tablet, to scan and do a search on all the applications installed on the device that we have access to our online profiles. The search can be carried out to discover the applications that have access to our data from Facebook, Yahoo !, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Instagram and Flickr. These are the main ones, but you can add other online services.
Online Privacy Shield also will catalog the software used on the PC
What might seem strange is that it should be listed not only the applications that you have currently installed on your device, but also applications that have also uninstalled a long time or you have installed on your PC. But what assures us that not Online Privacy Shield does just what he fights for? I mean, who assures us that it does not store our data?
The answer lies in the fact that, in addition to being specified in the description on the Play Store, whenever we want to scan an online service, we have to re-enter again our data.
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Didn't know about this app before. Doesn't seem that useful to me frankly. I'd rather restrict access to my info than simply be told who has already acessed it. Furthermore, it is not open source. That is usually a no-no for security/privacy apps as you then have to hope the developers aren't lying about any claims they make.
Have a look at OpenPDroid or even CM11 in-built Privacy Guard or AppOps for some examples of tools that restrict what apps can do/access on your device.
Incidentally, having to re-enter your online credentials isn't evidence of anything. The app may still transmit your data and credentials to external servers without your knowledge or permission anyway and the need to re-enter the credentials just ensures that it always has up-to-date credentials in case you changed your passphrase/password for instance. An open source app that you can build yourself removes any doubt.
hi guys,
I just noticed that Google play services updated to 8.3.01 (2385995-238) as it's saying that calendar won't run otherwise bla bla bla on my S5 and the location prompt is somewhat different, with the old version, 6.7.77 (1747363-438) i would get (see first attachment) with the little box "dont ask again"..
now basically you have a new prompt and if you clicked on AGREE once , it will not ask again that consent because the "do not show again" (other image) is gone. "anonymous data will be sent when your device is ON" does that mean my phone or when you enable LOCATION? i dont want to report location to Google!
does it mean that it will tracking you regardless?
also, in Google Settings with the old Play Services you had
Location Reporting
Location History
On the new one you have:
Location Services and in there Google Location History which i have set to OFF and Deleted all Location History. is this sufficient not to be tracked in the background?
if you uninstall play services and roll back to previous release, this works again. so are they tracking more stuff now??????? if i keep my "location" toggle off is it OFF for good or not???
dont like them keep messing with things and removing options, etc
thanks,
Gab
Hi, I'm not technically minded and hope you can help me with a question about privacy...
if I do not log in to my google account on a new ordinary Android phone will it will have any real privacy benefits? Would it lessen the amount of data that's automatically collected in the background by google?
(I'm careful about permissions and use Netguard, Fdroid and Aurora, and don't use social media apps on my phone)
Thanks.
Edited 21st April: I managed to get a reply from Rob Braxman that I think has answered my question - "all the telemetry of Google (wifi scanning, firebase, etc) still exists and the IMEI is always communicated" with a non-loggedin Android.
So, as far as I can tell, not logging in makes no difference to the background data that is Automatically collected on a normal Android phone. I only have some control over what info is collected through individual apps by using permissions wisely and having Netguard block phone and data usage when apps don't require them.
I don't think it matters. Also, how will you install apps from the Google Play Store without logging into your Google account?
I think that Google is an internet giant company in the world and it has clear privacy policies for its applications and services. It should be reliable.
Just for your reference.
James_Watson said:
I don't think it matters. Also, how will you install apps from the Google Play Store without logging into your Google account?
I think that Google is an internet giant company in the world and it has clear privacy policies for its applications and services. It should be reliable.
Just for your reference.
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Thanks for your reply, and I appreciate your viewpoint. I'm curious, however, about how much data collection is automatically built in to my normal Android phone's system whether I log into it or not.
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