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motivation to deGoogle: Creditors can lock your Android remotely if you are delinquent. (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by coffeeClean@infosec.pub to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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The technical mechanism:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.devicelock

update

To be clear, I am not the OP who experienced this problem. I just linked them from here.

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Someone not paying a phone bill doesn't equate to someone bombing Israel

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[–] coffeeClean@infosec.pub [S] 1 point 2 years ago

They’re not at odds. We don’t have to choose between protecting UDHR Art.3 and Art.17. It’s foolish to disregard some portion of the UDHR needlessly and arbitrarily.

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