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Re:Facebook scans system libraries on Android and uploads th... by shuckles on Friday August 30, 2019 @02:17PM (#20841082)
At the very least, the privacy-respecting solution would be to upload hashes and only upload libraries once some critical mass of users had reported the hash along with a bug. Even then, you would only upload the files themselves from some capped number of users.
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Re:Facebook scans system libraries on Android and uploads th... by janekm on Saturday August 31, 2019 @01:53AM (#20844828)
That makes no difference from a privacy point of view but would be more respectful of people’s bandwidth limits.
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Re:Facebook scans system libraries on Android and uploads th... by shuckles on Saturday August 31, 2019 @03:03AM (#20845003)
Yes it does. At the very least, people running custom libraries that nobody else does would never upload data.
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