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⚡️⚠️🇬🇧 ALERT - Check your phones.

The British government is installing apps on your phone without you even knowing.

This app 'Gov UK ID check' has been randomly showing up on people's phones without them installing it

Apparently, it is an authenticator app that the UK government has now re branded as a digital ID app and has secretly added it to millions of devices❗️

🗣️ Testimony : If you can see the “GOV-UK ID check” app, you might want to remove the app. It appeared overnight on my phone automatically

Scurvydog 3mo ago 💬 2

How do you secretly add an app? I call bullshit

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MoneRogue 3mo ago 💬 2

It looks like this mostly happening with iPhones, so maybe it's another agreement between the U.K government and Apple.

Scurvydog 3mo ago

Thanks. Exactly what I was wondering. A certain brand etc. Tim Cook should be castrated if true.

Ryan 3mo ago 💬 2

Google can & has done this too. They control your phones software, and can automatically install or uninstall apps.

https://allthings.how/what-is-android-system-safetycore-and-why-did-it-appear-on-your-phone-2/

MoneRogue 3mo ago

Just curious, does this occur even if you don't have Google on your phone? I uninstalled all Google services and blocked them with a firewall on mine.

Ryan 3mo ago

Degoogled should be ok? This is theoretically happens through Play Store & it's services. I'm not a security expert though.

I do have a secondary phone that runs GrapheneOS for anything I want to be more secure FWIW

CappyNate🍁 3mo ago

If only you knew the apps they installed that don't show up. 😉

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