Google's Restriction on Pixel 8 Temperature Sensor Access: Only Preinstalled or Google-Signed Apps Allowed (nitter.net)
from MazonnaCara89@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.ml on 21 Oct 2023 11:24
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Hogger85b@kbin.social on 21 Oct 2023 12:27 collapse

Obviously giving away the temp sensor is probably used as seed for security module

carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works on 21 Oct 2023 23:07 collapse

While that is an interesting idea I suspect the actual reason is their efforts to get it FDA certified as a medical device (which still hasn’t happened). The current app makes it abundantly clear it is not currently certified and a third party app claiming otherwise might be a liability concern.