2026-09-19 21:33 UTC
2026 DeGoogle Mobile Telemetry Study
How much data does a phone secretly send to Google when you are not using it? Our team measured 72 continuous hours of network packets from idle Android phones sitting untouched in our lab.
https://www.praveentechworld.com/research/degoogle-telemetry-2026
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@seanm@infosec.exchange 2026-09-19 22:31
@metr0pl3x@grapheneos.social it's weird how disabling privacy controls makes the Pixel 8 less noisy than its default configuration. You would assume that making the phone less private would lead to more network calls. #GrapheneOS