{"id":4962,"date":"2020-01-14T13:29:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T13:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/posts\/4962"},"modified":"2023-05-12T15:56:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T13:56:52","slug":"%ce%b1%ce%bd%ce%bf%ce%b9%cf%87%cf%84%ce%ae-%ce%b5%cf%80%ce%b9%cf%83%cf%84%ce%bf%ce%bb%ce%ae-%cf%80%cf%81%ce%bf%cf%82-%cf%84%ce%bf%ce%bd-%ce%b4%ce%b9%ce%b5%cf%85%ce%b8%cf%8d%ce%bd%ce%bf%ce%bd%cf%84-cop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/posts\/4962\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter to Alphabet Inc. CEO, Mr. Sundar Pichai"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column column_width_use_pixel=&#8221;yes&#8221; gutter_size=&#8221;3&#8243; overlay_alpha=&#8221;50&#8243; shift_x=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y_down=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243; medium_width=&#8221;0&#8243; mobile_width=&#8221;0&#8243; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;166584&#8243; column_width_pixel=&#8221;746&#8243;][vc_column_text el_class=&#8221;blogtext&#8221; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;109275&#8243;]On 8 January 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/privacyinternational.org\/news-analysis\/3325\/were-telling-google-privacy-shouldnt-be-luxury\">Privacy International<\/a> and more than 50 other organizations, including\u00a0<em>Homo Digitalis<\/em>, sent an open letter to the Alphabet Inc. CEO, Mr. Sundar Pichai.<\/p>\n<p>With this letter, the co-signing organizations, ask Google to take immediate measures to prohibit the use of pre-installed applications on Android smartphones, which constitute a threat to privacy of the users.<\/p>\n<p>These applications are currently permitted to operate outside the Android security protocols. It is notable that 91% of the said apps are not available in Google Play.<\/p>\n<p>These pre-installed apps are usually found in cheap Android smartphones and permit the use of the camera or the microphone, or even access to the device location.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>However, privacy and personal data protection are not luxuries, but human rights!<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You may read the full letter <a href=\"https:\/\/privacyinternational.org\/advocacy\/3320\/open-letter-google\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> and also participate in this campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/action.privacyinternational.org\/node\/9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 8 January, Privacy International sent an open letter, co-signed by Homo Digitalis, to Alphabet Inc. CEO regarding threats by preinstalled apps in Android software smatphones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119840,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962\/revisions\/119840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}