Allo, Google's new compact messaging platform, can accommodate features more than WhatsApp. However, within its features might lie some aspects that users need to be aware of.
Edward Snowden, whom John Oliver on his show Last Week Tonight describes as America's most popular traitor in recent times, also the 33-year-old man behind NSA information leak, tweets of Google's Allo as:
Free for download today: Google Mail, Google Maps, and Google Surveillance. That's #Allo. Don't use Allo. https://t.co/EdPRC0G7Py
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) September 21, 2016
And this:
Thinking about #Allo? Last year, our secret court approved 100% of requests for surveillance. They would cover Allo. https://t.co/oYtc3Pu8tx — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) September 21, 2016
This basically means that the government can extract sensitive information out of your conversation on Google Allo.
So, have we come to terms with giving away our privacy in exchange for a handful of features? The question persists.
The app has a voice assistant which gives you the access to multi-tasking with voice command over chat, collecting a massive amount of data, which then again, can be obtained by the government for surveillance reasons.
For those concerned about the privacy, it offers an incognito mode that builds an end-to-end encryption, which appears to be quite like a mask to not be altogether disregarded on privacy terms.
With privacy trading hands with comfort, is it understandable that we have offered it completely - for a lot of our personal communication is done through instant messaging - to the charge of government who can access it at any point in time? All of this in this in exchange for a few features, without which, chatting would still be easy? The answer to these questions are, indeed, subjective in nature.
Here is the Indian Express doing a review of Allo.
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