Calls and speeches about “listening”? When Google invites itself into your conversations …

Have you ever seen any ads on your mobile phone talking to your friend on the phone? This feeling of being “asked” is not a coincidence.

Professor of Computer Science at the prestigious Trinity College, Dublin Douglas Leith Highlights the practices of two Google Apps on Android: Messages (for receiving and sending text messages) and Phone (for calling).

According to Future science According to a recent study by an Irish professor, both of these applications send a great deal of personal information to Google servers that is generally private to you.

From this data (including hashtag message content), Google can identify the sender and recipient and link to searches performed during calls. The digital company can give each call a unique character or reconfigure the information exchanged during this transaction. Allows the user to verify or oppose GDPR database practices, especially in Europe. There, he had no choice, after all, he had no information.

As warned by Professor Leith, Google has already made a number of major changes to its applications, including user approval for data collection. Also, Messages will no longer retrieve certain information, such as the sender’s number.