Android 12's quietly important privacy progress

This year, for the first time in a long time, it's easy to glance at Google's latest Android effort and focus mostly on the surface.Android 12's most striking element is without a doubt the overhauled look and feel it brings to the operating system (even if realistically, Pixel owners are the only ones who'll reap the full benefits of that change). We haven't seen such a dramatic reimagining of the Android interface in many a moon — since 2014's Android 5.0 (a.k.a. Lollipop) release &mdas