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Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone
(lemmy.world)
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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It must be globally, I'm in Australia. What utter bullshit, since I would have never known if it weren't for my NetGuard firewall app.
Being Australian this is likely one to report to the ACCC, as Aussies at least have basic consumer protection, though that get murky with overseas tech entities.
Unfortunately the ACCC gives fewer fucks than you may expect. An airline once cancelled a flight on me and kept the cancellation fee, despite producing no evidence that any government had forced them to cancel the flight (this was during COVID).
ACCC did not care one bit
So while we do have some consumer protection (better than most) I would be surprised if they cared.
It's 5 minutes out of your life to try, as an aussie, please do, for charity if nothing else, who knows, you might benefit...
I am a serial complaint lodger, just that I'm much busier than I used to be. I may do it once I figure out what's going on with it on my phone.
Fair cop.
Thanks for you understanding friendo 🇦🇺
If it tickles your fancy, I once lodged a complaint with the national measurement institute to get a bar to stop selling American pints.
And they now sell it by the mL, beautiful
Solid.
Thank you for limiting the spread of freedom units. I wish my country would just get over itself and switch already.
I mostly agree, but you gotta admit the EU has been sticking it to the tech giants lately.
Definitely report this to the accc
I'm in Australia, and when I search for Device Lock Controller in Play Store, it says "This app is not available in your region"
This happens on 2 separate devices from different manufacturers. Both devices were purchased in Australia and have Australian ROMs
Also in Australia and it shows that to me as well
But going into my app list and showing system does show it
Check your installed apps (I left an edit in th post where to check). Just because it's not listen in the Playstore for Australia, doesn't mean it's not installed.
Yeah, I checked installed apps (checked system apps), and I don't have it installed on either of my devices
What model do you have, out of curiosity?