Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environment app with no rooting

Re:Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environm... by varispeed on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @06:35AM (#24988150)

So you can put your phone on recording e.g. in a restaurant "intercepting communications", but when someone calls you it's a no-no. Regardless, in my country recording is perfectly legal and yet Google has disabled it. If this is the law, then don't you think they should either follow it or not? I am not sure how you can only partially follow the law.

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Re:Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environm... by tyingq on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @07:42AM (#24988473)

They are doing the lazy thing and configuring it for "lowest common denominator". Yes, it's irritating. The effort to integrate GPS and allow/not-allow would be low.

Maybe it's complicated for telephone conversations where you're not breaking a law locally, but are breaking a law remotely?

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Re:Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environm... by varispeed on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @08:19AM (#24988723)

I'd rather think that insurance companies and similar who rely on sales over the phone lobbied Google to disable it. The law thing for me is too poorly done to be a valid excuse.

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