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Originally Posted by ink718
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Yeah, and Google and Microsoft are so much better at protecting our privacy.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/25/g...witch-for-the/
Google flexes biceps, flicks Android remote kill switch for the first time
We knew Google had the power to
remotely remove Android apps --
Microsoft and
Apple have backdoors into their mobile operating systems, too -- but it's
always a little disconcerting to see a kill switch used. Such is the case today, as we've just heard Google unleashed the hounds this week, siccing bits and bytes of remote deletion power on a pair of "practically useless" but still Terms of Service-infringing apps. Curiously enough, Google admits that most who'd downloaded these programs had deleted them already, and that this "exercise" of the remote application removal feature was a "cleanup" operation. Google says users will get a notification beamed to their phone if an app is removed, however -- so as Big Brother as that all sounds, at least the company's being nice and transparent about the whole matter, eh?