<![CDATA[Apparently Volkswagen added Play Integrity Device Level in their Android app.]]>Apparently Volkswagen added Play Integrity Device Level in their Android app. A German company depending on American big tech to decide whether a device is safe or not. What a shame.

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]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/532ae847-f2f1-4e6c-aabe-3b4c07889d55/apparently-volkswagen-added-play-integrity-device-level-in-their-android-app.RSS for NodeTue, 21 Jul 2026 23:29:15 GMTThu, 18 Jun 2026 11:39:54 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Apparently Volkswagen added Play Integrity Device Level in their Android app. on Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:43:28 GMT]]>@jnthnkl I still don't understand? The authorities don't have access to people's devices so what do you mean when you say "the info is there on the device"?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.nu/users/bettina/statuses/116925465104031387https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.nu/users/bettina/statuses/116925465104031387Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:43:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Apparently Volkswagen added Play Integrity Device Level in their Android app. on Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:49:31 GMT]]>@bettina They said they cannot measure the number of degoogled OSs they are running on, but the info is actually there on the device.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jnthnkl/statuses/116924545225671673https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jnthnkl/statuses/116924545225671673Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:49:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Apparently Volkswagen added Play Integrity Device Level in their Android app. on Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:36:39 GMT]]>@jnthnkl Unfortunately I don't know what that means...

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.nu/users/bettina/statuses/116924494598594968https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.nu/users/bettina/statuses/116924494598594968Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:36:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Apparently Volkswagen added Play Integrity Device Level in their Android app. on Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:04:37 GMT]]>@bettina @murena @volla You can answer them they could read ro.build.description or others system properties at runtime to have more details on the Operating System.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jnthnkl/statuses/116924368662412499https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jnthnkl/statuses/116924368662412499Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:04:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Apparently Volkswagen added Play Integrity Device Level in their Android app. on Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:52:13 GMT]]>@jnthnkl Yes, it's a "shame" to put it mildly - shameful, really...

Some months back, I saw that Murena /eOS/ and others were working on a solution called Unified Attestation but I don't know the status, maybe others do? https://uattest.net/ @murena @volla

Just today, I got the same weird response from the Danish Digitisation Agency, that they cannot measure how many degoogled phones exist in DK but they won't change Google Play Integrity API until there is more than 2%...

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.nu/users/bettina/statuses/116924319921837933https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.nu/users/bettina/statuses/116924319921837933Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:52:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Apparently Volkswagen added Play Integrity Device Level in their Android app. on Sat, 11 Jul 2026 08:02:17 GMT]]>@jnthnkl That's true indeed

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.gyt.is/users/gytisrepecka/statuses/01KX835P9CZHBE3GSPM6VPWYM1https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.gyt.is/users/gytisrepecka/statuses/01KX835P9CZHBE3GSPM6VPWYM1Sat, 11 Jul 2026 08:02:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Apparently Volkswagen added Play Integrity Device Level in their Android app. on Sat, 11 Jul 2026 07:58:39 GMT]]>@gytisrepecka Unfortunately, VAG group is not the only one taking bad decisions. There are plenty of bad actors these days.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jnthnkl/statuses/116900280340977919https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jnthnkl/statuses/116900280340977919Sat, 11 Jul 2026 07:58:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Apparently Volkswagen added Play Integrity Device Level in their Android app. on Sat, 11 Jul 2026 07:49:28 GMT]]>@jnthnkl Well, VAG group is notorious for utterly bad decisions

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.gyt.is/users/gytisrepecka/statuses/01KX82E73Y4M5WGDTVJRC57B66https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.gyt.is/users/gytisrepecka/statuses/01KX82E73Y4M5WGDTVJRC57B66Sat, 11 Jul 2026 07:49:28 GMT