Unfortunately the ACCC gives fewer fucks than you may expect. An airline once cancelled a flight on me and kept the cancellation fee, despite producing no evidence that any government had forced them to cancel the flight (this was during COVID).

ACCC did not care one bit

So while we do have some consumer protection (better than most) I would be surprised if they cared.

though that get murky with overseas tech entities.

I mostly agree, but you gotta admit the EU has been sticking it to the tech giants lately.

Also in Australia and it shows that to me as well

But going into my app list and showing system does show it

Check your installed apps (I left an edit in th post where to check). Just because it's not listen in the Playstore for Australia, doesn't mean it's not installed.

Are you looking at system apps? It's installed as a system app on my phone using GrapheneOS

com.android.devicelockcontroller

Looks like it's an AOSP app

iodéOS here and I can't find it on my phone either (yes I looked at the system apps)

Did you check your system apps? It's an AOSP app, so I would be surprised if this were the case. It could be under either com.google or com.android.

I've got it on OOS14, I've got an EU OP11

It's not just you, it's phoning home for me too. Pixel 7, also Australia, bought outright from officeworks. I don't log network reqs so I don't know exacts, but it's using 25kb every 3 days or so, so it's doing something.

I checked and don't see it. So either my phone is too old, or is exempt since I bought from Google Fi.