Sandboxed Google Play Services and Telemetry?

Bootlace1170

Thanks for the developers in creating such a great OS! I know that GrapheneOS has 0 telemetry. I'm just curious, if I have Google Play Service enabled (with network access to get certain push notifications), I assume that there will be some telemetry that gets sent to Google. I know they have no real ability to identify you, since they don't have access to hardware identifier, but I'm just curious about if they start collecting telemetry about your phone and your usage.

Thanks!

unwat

Bootlace1170

I know maybe some people on here might not like this suggestion since Google is evil and all, but if you're curious about the kinds of data Google can collect you can create a new account, use it for a day or something, then request a copy of your data at https://takeout.google.com/

I actually did this recently and compared info collected before and after I started using GrapheneOS (my previous phone was locked), and I was pleased to see they didn't have much.

Bootlace1170

unwat awesome. Thanks for this!