Privacy News Google remotely enabled Battery Saver on a bunch of phones running Android 9 Pie

[Ink]

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https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/14/17861150/google-battery-saver-android-9-pie-remote-settings-change

You’d think there would be more safeguards for preventing this kind of thing

Yesterday a mix of people who own Google Pixel phones and other devices running Android 9 Pie noticed that the software’s Battery Saver feature had been switched on — seemingly all by itself. And oddly, this was happening when the phones were near a full charge, not when the battery was low. As reported by Android Police, initially it was assumed that this was some kind of minor bug in the latest version of Android, which was only released a few weeks ago. Some users thought they might’ve just enabled Battery Saver without realizing.

But it was actually Google at fault.

The company posted a message on Reddit last night acknowledging “an internal experiment to test battery saving features that was mistakenly rolled out to more users than intended.” So Google had remotely — and accidentally — changed a phone setting for a bunch of real-world customers.

Reddit Link: -https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/9fkrvw/is_anyone_elses_power_saving_mode_turning_itself/e5xl907/

 

[Venustus]

You’d think there would be more safeguards for preventing this kind of thing



Reddit Link: -https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/9fkrvw/is_anyone_elses_power_saving_mode_turning_itself/e5xl907/

Google at it's best,NOT!!!

 

[Sana Khan]

pretty interesting !