as informed in Here's a quick run-down of what happened:Google first discovered the vulnerability inside of the Fortnite installer app on Aug. 15 and immediately notified Epic. Within 48 hours, Epic patched the Fortnite installer and deployed it to all Android users that installed the app. Despite Epic's demand for Google to wait the full 90 days before disclosing the exploit, Google abided by its own guidelines and shared the details. But the Android gatekeeper maintains that its speedy disclosure of the exploit was done in the name of consumer security. Will Google have to monitor and perform safety audits on all of those as well in order to protect Android users?
Google brings Emergency Location Service to Android users across the US
Google has expanded Android's Emergency Location Service to more people in the US, making it easier for emergency services to locate people the time responding to a 911 call out. Emergency Location Service is baked into handsets, and it is supported by Android 4.0 and newer, meaning it is available to nearly all (99 percent) Android phones. In a blog post, Google says:In partnership by emergency tech company RapidSOS, we provide ELS location directly to emergency communications centers out of their secure, IP-based data platform. RapidSOS integrates by existing software at emergency centers in the America to provide a faster, more accuaverage location by ELS. For Android users on Viya, our integration with West allows your more accuaverage location to be delivered more quickly with ELS to emergency centers out of existing channels by wireless providers.
Google boosts Android emergency service availability - Mobile World Live
referring to Google teamed by T-Mobile America and tech company RapidSOS to bring Android Emergency Location Services (ELS) to the US, a move it said going to make it easier for emergency responders to locate callers. Through the partnership, Google said device location data for Android going to be provided to emergency services the time users place a call. Mark McDiarmid, T-Mobile SVP of technology, said The Wall Street Journal the operator going to combine its location data by Google information before forwarding the information to emergency services. RapidSOS will send Android location information directly to emergency service call centres in markets where its software has been adopted. The move comes as operators and tech companies seek to better pinpoint caller locations as people increasingly dial emergency services from a mobile phone rather than a landline.Google testing a rename of Incognito mode in Chrome for Android
Chrome 69 earlier this September marked the 10th anniversary of the browser by a Google Material Theme and smarter Omnibox. In recent months, Google has alextremely been contemplating a rename of Incognito mode to "Private" mode. Earlier this month, Chrome 70 for Android gained a flag titled "Alternate incognito strings" that swaps out Incognito mode to "Private" throughout the app. Today, some users (via Android Police) are seeing "Incognito tab" renamed to "private tab" in several menus in the browser, including overflow and the time holding down on URLs. Coincidently, this name coincides by Google Keep just getting a rename to "Keep Notes."More about Google Chrome:Check out 9to5Google on YouTube for more news:
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