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**“How Find My Device protects your data” | Google turns Android devices into Airtag equivalents, I’m waiting for screams from privacy & safety activists**

The announcements have gone out, and people – including me – are finding out about the new Google “Find My Device” network. I think this is a good idea but I’m absolutely sure that people are going to throw rocks at it (a) because “Google” & (b) because civil society have equally spent the last few years throwing rocks at Airtags because downsides are more important than upsides at the moment.

So it’s good that Google have the “end to end encryption” branding up-front – but I’m waiting for the dust to settle on the details of whether it is worthy of the name.

[https://support.google.com/android/answer/14796936](https://support.google.com/android/answer/14796936?hl=en#crowdsourcing_work )

and:

https://blog.google/products/android/android-find-my-device/

https://alecmuffett.com/article/110264

#airtag #google #privacy #surveillance