{"id":15847,"date":"2016-09-28T16:11:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T20:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=15847"},"modified":"2016-09-28T16:11:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T20:11:03","slug":"google-reneges-on-allo-privacy-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/28\/google-reneges-on-allo-privacy-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Reneges on Allo Privacy Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/9\/21\/12994362\/allo-privacy-message-logs-google\">Russell Brandom<\/a>: (via <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2016\/09\/21\/google-reneges-on-allo\">John Gruber<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=12545292\">Hacker News<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/9\/21\/12994362\/allo-privacy-message-logs-google\"><p>The version of Allo&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/9\/21\/12996170\/google-allo-review-assistant-messaging-chat-app\">rolling out today<\/a> will store all non-incognito messages by default &mdash; a clear change from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/5\/18\/11699122\/google-allo-messaging-app-announced-io-2016\">Google&rsquo;s earlier statements<\/a> that the app would only store messages transiently and in non-identifiable form. The records will now persist until the user actively deletes them, giving Google default access to a full history of conversations in the app.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Like Hangouts and Gmail, Allo messages will still be encrypted between the device and Google servers, and stored on servers using encryption that leaves the messages accessible to Google&rsquo;s algorithms.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Brandom: (via John Gruber, Hacker News) The version of Allo&nbsp;rolling out today will store all non-incognito messages by default &mdash; a clear change from Google&rsquo;s earlier statements that the app would only store messages transiently and in non-identifiable form. The records will now persist until the user actively deletes them, giving Google default access [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1425,248,51,31,355],"class_list":["post-15847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-allo","tag-android","tag-google","tag-ios","tag-privacy"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15848,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15847\/revisions\/15848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}