CalyxOS Is (Almost) Back But Is It Any Better?

About this episode

The episode discusses the return of CalyxOS with Android 16 test builds, facial recognition at Disneyland, and data sharing by Google under DHS compulsion.

After an extended break - CalyxOS has come back and released test builds of Android 16 for their supported devices, Disneyland is using facial recognition software in their parks, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security compelled Google to share data about Canadians because of social media posts and much more! Join us for this Week In Privacy #52! (00:00) - Intro (00:37) - Start of podcast (01:23) - CalyxOS progress report - our test build with Android 16 is here (25:31) - Canvas login portals hacked in mass Shiny Hunters extortion campaign (40:36) - Site updates (50:08) - Google Chrome been silently pushing 4GB AI model to your device asking (01:13:29) - Microsoft Edge keeps all saved passwords unencrypted (01:22:12) - Forum updates (01:56:55) - Q&A (02:31:19) - Outro ★ Support this podcast ★

Topics covered

• CalyxOS
• facial recognition
• data privacy
• social media
• hacking
• Google data sharing
• password security

Keywords

• CalyxOS
• Android 16
• facial recognition
• Google
• data privacy
• hacking
• Microsoft Edge
• password security
• social media

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CalyxOS, Disneyland, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Google, Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome

Products: Android 16

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