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Google Fixes User Tracking Issue in Pixel Smartphones

Google engineers have addressed a serious user privacy bug that affected only versions of the Android operating system installed on the company’s latest line of Pixel smartphones. The serial number for each Pixel camera sensor was saved inside “htc.camera.sensor.front_SN

Source: and could thus facilitate user tracking. The only processes allowed to read this value are “”cameraserver

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