Google was released yesterday the second messaging application he had announced during Google I / O. The Google Allo app is available for download from yesterday, but apparent privacy features are missing.
Google Allo app is undoubtedly a very exciting chat app, and definitely an alternative to choose from among others applications, όπως το Messenger και το WhatsApp του Facebook.
But something is wrong:
When Google first announced Allo, it said it would focus on new privacy features and that it wouldn't store messages indefinitely, only temporarily. Promised end-to-end encryption in anonymous mode browsing.
Yes, the final version of Allo released yesterday stores messages indefinitely, up to user αποφασίσει να τα διαγράψει. Η ανώνυμη περιήγηση έρχεται με κρυπτογράφηση end-to-end και οι χρήστες έχουν τη δυνατότητα να ορίσουν ένα χρονοδιακόπτη για automatic delete messages, just like in the WhatsApp application. But Google had announced another privacy protection feature last May. It promised that the conversations will not be stored on its servers, which it seems is not going to change.
The reason;
It's Google's new AI technology, Google Assistant. Google Assistant using Allo reads the messages and learns the user's behavior by providing answers, even pictures.
To do this, the Allo app needs to access as much data as it can get, so Google decided that the best way was to store the messages on its servers. However movement this shows that privacy is being traded in favor of Google Assistant.
"Even Eduard Snowden said on his Twitter account that the Google Allo app logs every message you send and will make it available to the police if requested."
What is So? And a Google app that records every message you ever send and makes it available to the police upon request. https://t.co/EdPRC0G7Py
- Edward Snowden (@Snowden) September 21, 2016