Zak is a widely recognized expert on surveillance, cyber and the security and privacy risks associated with big tech, social media, IoT and smartphone platforms. He is frequently cited in the media, with appearances on BBC, Sky, NPR, NBC, Channel 4, TF1, ITV and Fox. Zak has 25-years real-world experience in cyber and surveillance.
If you buy a high-end Samsung or iPhone device, there’s little to choose between them. It’s the Android OS that has always been the catch. But now Google is slowly changing that as well—and it’s causing serious anger amongst users…and the third-party app store ecosystem. And later this year, we will finally see an update to texting between Android and iPhone, with Apple’s reluctant RCS concession.
Not a popular move for those impacted. “Shadowbanning is one of the most classic, Orwellian tools in the censorship toolbox,” complained the original poster on Reddit, “and it is being used against people who paid full price for a device and pay monthly for cellular service. Google is now full-on denying your communications.”
And while that poster, and others, refer to this as Orwellian, the spin side is that most Android users within Google’s ecosystem want broadly the same level of security and protection enjoyed by their iPhone counterparts. As such, I don’t see this kind of tightening changing back anytime soon. Google has started updating Pixel phones with the “Satellite SOS” feature that has been seen on Apple’s devices from iPhone 14 onward. As explained by, “if you dive into Settings > Safety & emergency on a Pixel phone today, you’ll very likely see ‘Satellite SOS’ appear between Emergency SOS and Car Crash Detection. Google, seemingly in an error, has rolled out the setting widely to virtually all Pixel device through a recent update to Adaptive Connectivity Services.
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