since yesterday… oop: https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/114816283089805862
haven’t found a public google announcement, the screenshot seems to be from emails
since yesterday… oop: https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/114816283089805862
haven’t found a public google announcement, the screenshot seems to be from emails
How can we spy on you if you turn it off.
More like how can they spy on you if you don’t manually install this agent that does exactly what it’s described to do but facts don’t matter anymore I guess 🤷♂️
It likely installed in the background as a hidden ‘app’. No user interaction required.
Nope. Made up assumptions and fake news.
Edit:
Fuck, I’m wrong, you’re right. I must have spot checked the Gemini fan club or something out of my end users. Still don’t know how all our luddite inter-office mail couriers got it.
Looks like Google has added a Gemini options page to Android settings regardless of the app install, which is where my confusion on my own device came from.
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Show proof then.
Then how did it end up on my phone, or on the over 1000 android phones my workplace oversees through mdm solutions?
It’s being pushed with normal automatic app updates through Google Play.
Show proof of how an app got on your phones? Sure get me a user account on your tooling!
My sincerest apologies, I am a clown. Previous posts edited.
Butthurt because fake news.
Edit:
Fuck, I’m wrong, you’re right. I must have spot checked the Gemini fan club or something out of my end users. Still don’t know how all our luddite inter-office mail couriers got it.
Looks like Google has added a Gemini options page to Android settings regardless of the app install, which is where my confusion on my own device came from.
Old post
My… tooling? So you don’t even understand what MDM means. Ugh. Hope you had fun with the shitposting.
For the crowd, it’s mobile device management. In this scenario, it is being used to manage access to company resources (work email) through specific siloed off apps on employees’ personal phones. Employee says “I want to read my work email from my phone”, we say “sure, just install this MDM that allows us to remotely wipe it from your phone, or to wipe your entire phone, and also lets us track your phone’s location and all installed apps”.
Personally, as part of the team that admins that system, I don’t allow it on my personal device.
It could be used to manage company owned phones and tablets for places that use them instead of point of sale systems, but the general use case is for managing “bring your own” personal devices and their access to work data.
Point is, Gemini is installed on too many of my end-users’ personal devices for it to be just something people are choosing to install themselves. Not enough tech savvy people here for that to work out statistically. Our fucking interoffice mail couriers have it (at least the ones with phones new enough to support our MDM).
Plus, it’s on my personal phone. I sure as hell didn’t go out of my way to install it. It came in through the standard Google Play app updates. Like everyone else but this dingleberry is saying.
Right! because this is the only app that Google is spying on you. what agent are you talking about? does exactly what? how do you know?
And all of google’s history and business model totally doesn’t matter, I guess.
Try harder… or not. 🤷♂️
I know they are scanning my data. I install and log into their services. I agree to it.
Again I’ll explain it because reading is too hard. The app isn’t secretly installing itself on phones. You install it. Absolutely absurd how tech illiterate this crowd is.