ONELite – Digital Guard is a mobile app by TheOneSpy that collects optional data including installed apps, contacts, and location information for app functionality. The app encrypts data in transit, does not share data with third parties, and allows users to request data deletion.
Ireland's Data Protection Commission fined Google over €400m for manipulating users into allowing continuous location tracking on mobile devices. The six-year inquiry found Google lacked valid legal basis for processing location data and failed to adequately inform users that their location was being used for targeted advertising and inferring personal details about health, religion, and politics. Google must comply with EU data protection regulations within six months.
A security analysis captured 72 hours of network traffic from three factory-default Google Pixel 8 phones using an external pfSense firewall and found that idle Android devices transmitted approximately 8,300 telemetry packets daily to Google servers, revealing location data, device fingerprints, notification heartbeats, photo sync tokens, and search queries without user interaction.