I captured 72 hours of idle Android packets behind pfSense

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Home/Research/DeGoogle Telemetry StudyHow much data does a phone secretly send to Google when you are not using it? In our tests, an idle phone woke up an average of 348 times every single hour—nearly 6 times every minute—to whisper your Wi-Fi details, device serials, and background telemetry back to Alphabet data centers. Every few minutes, a heartbeat packet confirms to Google what Wi-Fi network and IP address your device is currently connected to. 4.

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