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Android 15 will run Bluetooth with your phone still turned off. (security.googleblog.com)

submitted 8 months ago by trippingonthewire@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I saw this on infinity for Reddit earlier, I don't know if there's a workaround for this or not.

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[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can turn off the phone???

[–] refalo@programming.dev 4 points 8 months ago

Not completely. My understanding is that the baseband radio still always runs even when the application OS is shutdown, and it (often) has its own connections to the GPS, camera and microphone, sometimes even the filesystem (Samsung RFS). The battery not being removable makes this even more problematic IMO.