What are the 3 basic functions of social work?

What functions of an Android mobile phone don't work without Google?

• In the modern age of both and governments wanting to watch everything you do for their own … purposes, the best way to prevent them from knowing who your friends & colleagues are or what you're working is to avoid telling them in the first place, e.g. not using , or , or … and the appear to be pretty good , but that leaves a question: as doesn't work when the can't connect to ( does significant processing for Siri in data centers, and collects information about each and every query you make), what functions on Android phones don't work if you do your utmost to cut off from your data? How functional is it as an independent smart phone running only local software? To draw a fine line: I have no problem buying from - if you want apps, that's the best place to go. However, I don't want Google collecting information about my use of, or the data I input to, those apps - that information is mine. My computers and devices should be my confidants, inviolate.

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  I was very close to not answering this question because the truce of the matter is that I really don't know. I decided, however to give it a shot anyways. Android is made by Google and Google is a pretty big and diverse company. Obviously if you stop networking, all the network based things will have a hard time running. Your problem is that for all practical reasons, you cannot efficiently block just Google because you really have no way of knowing all Googles sites, IP addresses and services. Mobile phone communication and Apps communication is a relatively new thing. Knowing what is being communicated is not always possible, some of it is encrypted, some of it is obfuscated. My guess is that some of it is cached and sent when connection is available. A lot of Googles gathering of information is not primarily done client side. When you hit some service with your mobile device, the only thing your mobile device really sends is it's identity. All the other information on what that mobile device has done is harvested in that service (server side) a bit like Google Analytics. All that is needed is your identity. This way Google can get information from sites and services that are not really Google. The way I see it, you have two options. 1. try to hide as much as possible by keeping your mobile device on Flight Mode most of the time and restrict as much as possible. or 2. try to flood with irrelevant wrong information. Write a script that browses, searches, choose services, listens to tunes, look at magazines, read news, do stuff that you would not choose by your self. This could actually be a really cool project. To have a script that would one day behave like a young girl, the next like an old man, the next day like an art lover, the next day like a ..... This way your profile would be messed up to the point where it was not useful to anybody. ' That was the best I could do. Hope it helps even if I am not really answering your question