Breitbart 18 Sep 2018
The BBC reports
that Silicon Valley Master of the Universe Google has admitted to
remotely activating the “battery saver” function on many users’ Android
phones. The battery saver function is designed to allow the phone to
operate at a lower performance while preserving battery life and in some
cases is automatically enabled when a phone goes below a certain
battery level. According to multiple people describing the incident, the
battery saver was enabled with a full or nearly full battery.
In a post to Reddit, a Google spokesperson explained that the sudden
enabling of the feature was part of an internal test update to the
Android operating system which was accidentally rolled out publicly.
“This was an internal experiment to test battery-saving features that
was mistakenly rolled out to more users than intended,” the company
said in a Reddit comment. “We have now rolled battery saver settings back to default. Please configure to your liking. Sorry for the confusion.”
The majority of phones affected were reported to be Google Pixel
devices, but there were reports of other brands of phones having the
battery saver feature suddenly enabled. Kate Bevan, the editor of Which?
Computing magazine, commented on Google’s ability to roll out these
changes saying:
“I noticed the other day that suddenly my battery saver was on and I
was a bit puzzled by it. I don’t want any app or operating system
reversing decisions I’ve made — unless I know why they are doing it,”
said Bevan. “It’s about transparency and consent — it may well be a good
idea that a change is being made but I still want to know why.”
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