{"id":17428,"date":"2017-03-15T15:19:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T19:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=17428"},"modified":"2017-03-15T15:19:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T19:19:48","slug":"allo-can-reveal-what-youve-searched-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/15\/allo-can-reveal-what-youve-searched-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Allo Can Reveal What You&rsquo;ve Searched For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.recode.net\/2017\/3\/13\/14912394\/google-allo-search-history-privacy-messaging-app\">Tess Townsend<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.recode.net\/2017\/3\/13\/14912394\/google-allo-search-history-privacy-messaging-app\">\n<p>A unique feature of Allo is that you can use Assistant while in the middle of a conversation with a friend. You could, for example, ask Assistant to search for restaurants in a certain area, while you&rsquo;re talking to a friend about where to eat.<\/p>\n<p>But Assistant isn&rsquo;t perfect, and sometimes it responds with answers unrelated to questions at hand, or it will respond with an answer to an earlier question &mdash; and it&rsquo;s then that it can inadvertently reveal a previous search query.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Google responded to our story: &ldquo;We were notified about the Assistant in group chats not working as intended. We&rsquo;ve fixed the issue and appreciate the report.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/28\/google-reneges-on-allo-privacy-feature\/\">Google Reneges on Allo Privacy Feature<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tess Townsend: A unique feature of Allo is that you can use Assistant while in the middle of a conversation with a friend. You could, for example, ask Assistant to search for restaurants in a certain area, while you&rsquo;re talking to a friend about where to eat. But Assistant isn&rsquo;t perfect, and sometimes it responds [&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":[1425,248,249,1351,131,51,355],"class_list":["post-17428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-allo","tag-android","tag-androidapp","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-bug","tag-google","tag-privacy"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17428","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=17428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17429,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17428\/revisions\/17429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}