Google has denied claims that Pixel phones provide the company with private user data such as location, network status, phone number, and app list every 15 minutes.
Cybernews published a report containing these allegations on October 9, citing its own research team’s findings as evidence. In short, the report claims that Pixel phones share a substantial amount of personal data with Google at regular intervals, sometimes with services the user has not consented to using, and that the phone independently looks for new code to run, suggesting some degree of remote control is possible.
