• ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.social
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      1 year ago

      As others have said, manufacturer telemetry. Just the usual built-in spyware that people are fine with for some reason… Everyone does it, they’re just bad at hiding it in this case.

    • bbbhltz@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      As mentioned, this is a Qualcomm thing. Not exactly spyware, but probably not necessary either.

      https://www.qualcomm.com/site/privacy/services

      Qualcomm Location Service (formerly “IZat Location Services” or “IZat”) is technology offered by Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in the U.S., QT Technologies Ireland Limited in countries within the European Economic Area, and Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (Korea) YH in the Republic of Korea (a.k.a. South Korea). Qualcomm Location Service may enable your device to determine its location more quickly and accurately – even when your device is unable to get a strong GPS signal.

      Something like the UAD could disable it, or you could use Tracker Control to block it, or straight up use adb to disable it… But, it will run even if disabled.

      The package is com.qualcomm.location so,

      adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.qualcomm.location

      will disable it, but it will always come back…

      • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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        1 year ago

        Removing it can cause a bootloop in some cases, likely something in the boot process is looking for it and reinstalling that app if missing. Google’s play services recently started doing that with permissions that are revoked with root

        Should be removable on a non-stock ROM though