So just to be clear, Safety Core is a set of models for detecting sensitive content that other apps can hook into to add warning when someone sends you something dirty. It's updated via the Play Store as a system app, so users are seeing it and freaking out. As far as I can tell, this is no different from the sensitive content warnings that Apple has in iOS.
What's wild is that when Apple does it, it's heralded as a great thing for user security, it's also a feature you have no choice but to have installed in the OS (though can be disabled, exactly like Google's version). When Google does it, but distributes it slightly differently, we get articles like this with people shitting themselves and telling users how to disable system apps. I get that Google doesn't have the trust that Apple does, but man the lack of nuance from a tech blog is so disappointing.
So just to be clear, Safety Core is a set of models for detecting sensitive content that other apps can hook into to add warning when someone sends you something dirty. It's updated via the Play Store as a system app, so users are seeing it and freaking out. As far as I can tell, this is no different from the sensitive content warnings that Apple has in iOS.
What's wild is that when Apple does it, it's heralded as a great thing for user security, it's also a feature you have no choice but to have installed in the OS (though can be disabled, exactly like Google's version). When Google does it, but distributes it slightly differently, we get articles like this with people shitting themselves and telling users how to disable system apps. I get that Google doesn't have the trust that Apple does, but man the lack of nuance from a tech blog is so disappointing.