[medo-bear]

:) So one way I immagine it does this is by listening in on your microphone to determine a distress signal. Up to you if you think this is cool. In general people should ask themselves do they really want a semi-intelligent program someone else trained "living" in their phone. Yikes. I tried to uninstall the neural network package on my Android but it is impossible since it is an actual system package. Why on earth it should be an Android system package is beyond me. Moreover this issue persists even if you use a de-Googled privacy and security focused distribution like GrapheneOS

[vntok]

Yes but that's only in your imagination, it's not how the feature works. The feature works based on motion detection trained on specific "theft patterns".

[medo-bear]

Because you trust how it is marketed. The android neural network package is system deep, meaning it could easily bypass all software permissions for hardware