felt visselblåsaren Edward Snowden does not think that Google’s new app Allo live up to their promises about the privacy of the user.
During the conference I/O in may last, #Google its new chat client #Allo, and one of the things that was stressed was the app’s integritetsfunktioner. Messages sent via Allo would by default only saves a certain amount of time. In addition to this was a special incognito mode, where the conversations are encrypted “from end to end” and notes from the app is anonymised.
Now, Google has begun to roll out the Allo, and as The Verge reports, a few things changed. Incognito mode is still there, but as the app is preset, will all sent and received messages to be saved. These remain until the user actively chooses to remove them.
According to Google took place the change to another of the features of the Allo to work better, namely the smart answer based on the conversation content. Messages will be permanently stored on Google’s servers makes the learning of these responses go more smoothly. It also means that messages sent with the Allo would be able to be requested by the court and other authorities.
Just as with other Google apps such as Gmail are messages sent, All encrypted on the path between the device and Google’s servers. Once there, they use Google’s own encryption, which means that the company’s algorithms can use the data.
One of those which, because of this is not particularly impressed by Google’s new app is the well-known visseblåsaren and integritetsaktivisten Edward Snowden. Via Twitter, he links to the article at The Verge and do not recommend that you use the app.
Snowden himself instead recommend two other chat clients such, namely, the Signal from Open Whisper Systems and Torchat.
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