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Google is yet again in the middle of a legal battle. The third-party app store Aptoide filed an antitrust lawsuit on 14th April, 2026, saying Google is basically controlling how apps are distributed and paid for on Android. @Aptoide claims that Google has too much control over the ecosystem, pushing developers toward the Play Store. Because of this, it is really hard for other app stores to compete, and in turn, limits options for both developers and users, in what is termed as an “anticompetitive chokehold”. 🔗gamingonphonebiz.com/aptoide-takes-…

@FlockSafety I had to cremate my 17 year old daughter due to similar rogue installation errors.

.@vonderleyen "The European #AgeVerification app is technically ready. It respects the highest privacy standards in the world. It's open-source, so anyone can check the code..." I did. It didn't take long to find what looks like a serious #privacy issue. The app goes to great lengths to protect the AV data AFTER collection (is_over_18: true is AES-GCM'd); it does so pretty well. But, the source image used to collect that data is written to disk without encryption and not deleted correctly. For NFC biometric data: It pulls DG2 and writes a lossless PNG to the filesystem. It's only deleted on success. If it fails for any reason (user clicks back, scan fails & retries, app crashes etc), the full biometric image remains on the device in cache. This is protected with CE keys at the Android level, but the app makes no attempt to encrypt/protect them. For selfie pictures: Different scenario. These images are written to external storage in lossless PNG format, but they're never deleted. Not a cache... long-term storage. These are protected with DE keys at the Android level, but again, the app makes no attempt to encrypt/protect them. This is akin to taking a picture of your passport/government ID using the camera app and keeping it just in case. You can encrypt data taken from it until you're blue in the face... leaving the original image on disk is crazy & unnecessary. From a #GDPR standpoint: Biometric data collected is special category data. If there's no lawful basis to retain it after processing, that's potentially a material breach. youtube.com/watch?v=4VRRri…

It is for parents to raise their children. Not platforms. The European Age Verification App is ready ↓ twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…