At first I thought they’d discovered invasive Google telemetry in the Android System app. Just FYI, this is talking about spyware disguising itself as a system app.

I see that hackernews is still publishing clickbait news articles. In other news the world keeps spinning.

What a misleading caption. You’re safe as long as you’re not installing random APK files from shady sites.

https://thehackernews.com/2021/03/watch-out-that-android-system-update.html