8.12.2020

Does this count as surveillance now?

Android is now the world’s largest earthquake detection network

What if you didn't need to install the app? What if earthquake detection was just built in to the operating system? That's the question Google is going to answer, with today's announcement of the "Android Earthquake Alerts System." Google is going to build what it calls "the world’s largest earthquake detection network" by rolling earthquake detection out to nearly every Google Play Android phone.

 Is it any more or less surveillance than, say, COVID tracking or facial recognition geofencing reminders or traffic reporting or…

Well. It's getting complicated, that's all. 

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