At first I thought they'd discovered invasive Google telemetry in the Android System app. Just FYI, this is talking about spyware disguising itself as a system app.
this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2021
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I see that hackernews is still publishing clickbait news articles. In other news the world keeps spinning.
What a misleading caption. You're safe as long as you're not installing random APK files from shady sites.