The new app of chat Google, Allo, he received a rain of criticism on the part of new specialists. The doubts come by the side of the security features that the company announced last may, as the encryption point-to-point by default.
“Free to download today: Google Mail, Google Maps, and Surveillance of Google. That is #Allo. Do not use Allo”, he said through his Twitter account Edward Snowden, the former coach of the intelligence revealed in 2013 the programs of massive spying of the u.s. National Security Agency (NSA).
On the same line, the site specialized The Verge stressed that beyond the incognito mode that you can use the app, “stores all the messages by default”, which suggests “a clear change with respect to prior statements from Google” according to which the messages would be stored transiently and in a way that could not be identified.
“The records now remain until the user actively deletes them, giving Google access by default to the full history of the conversations in the app”, added the publication.
A spokesman for Google is quoted by The Verge said that these changes in privacy were made to improve the response capacity of the wizard of Allo, which “learns” as you can access more information.
Also, the specializing questioned whether this decision will have consequences as, for example, that the security forces or judicial authorities to access messages with just require, as is the case with Gmail.
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