What does voice privacy mean

Asked 9 years, 7 months ago. Active 5 years, 3 months ago. Viewed k times. The description beneath the checkbox merely states "Enable enhanced privacy mode": The screenshot is from Deck's ICS pre-beta, but I'm fairly positive I saw this in CM7 as well because it seems very familiar. Improve this question. Haven't ever seen this on any of my devices. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. For the record: I did compile this answer longest part was to include and reference all the grepped stuff while ryan was a little faster to post.

Haven't seen his answer until after the post though. If you can support your answer with Android source code then I say by all means, do it! Providing a "layman" summary is helpful for non-programmers, but if you look at some of my posts I think you'll find I'm certainly not opposed to delving into AOSP to find answers : — eldarerathis.

Thanks for the hint! That's where the ultimate answers lie, it's the only way to be sure TM sometimes :- — ce4. Use the source luke :P — t0mm13b. In other words, turn the feature off, and don't worry about it.

Ryan Conrad Ryan Conrad It's fundamentally broken. Researchers have 'shown that an eavesdropper can recover the voice privacy mask after eavesdropping the transmission on the downlink traf- fic channel for about one second'. It's just a feature of the competing CDMA standard and because it's optional, someone chose to make it an option also in android.

However: GSM is also fundamentally broken. Search forums. Log in. Install the app. Contact us. Close Menu. Forums Android Discussions General Discussions. JavaScript is disabled.

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In the Settings menu, if you go to the Call Settings screen, there is an option entitled "Voice Privacy. What does this mean, exactly? It doesn't seem to make any difference to me, if I leave it checked or un-checked.

LordKastle Member. Joined Nov 14, Messages Reaction score 0. Does this come default turned on? I know mine is on but I wouldn't be surprised if I checked it on if it came off by default. This is the one question that has gone unsolved in this forum. It is the mystery of all mysteries.

Hopefully one day we have the answer to one of the plagues of humanity. LordKastle said:. Your photos are also being sent to your Photo Stream, which sends your photos to your other gadgets. However, that only holds the most recent 1, and only for 30 days, so you don't want to use it for long-term backup.

You get 15GB of free storage, which is good for a lot of photos. In the upper corner, tap the icon with three vertical dots and choose "Settings. Select the Google account to back up to and it will start backing up your photos and videos to Google Photos.

To save your data plan, I suggest scrolling down the settings and setting it to only back up photos and videos while you're on Wi-Fi. Like Google, you get 15GB of free space. Here you can select what information Windows Phone is backing up. Of course, your smartphone isn't the only place with priceless information.

You should be backing up the data on your computer as well. For that I recommend Carbonite. Carbonite automatically backs up your files to a secure remote location where they're safe from thieves, computer failures and natural disasters. And it makes restoring your files to a new computer a snap. On the Kim Komando Show , the nation's largest weekend radio talk show, Kim takes calls and dispenses advice on today's digital lifestyle, from smartphones and tablets to online privacy and data hacks.

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