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From: "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened
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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 19:33:27 +0100
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On 2025-03-17 17:05, micky wrote:
> In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:01:16 +0100, "Carlos
> E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On 2025-03-16 16:10, micky wrote:
>>> In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sun, 16 Mar 2025 13:47:34 -0000 (UTC),
>>> Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 14:22:25 +0100 (CET), anon wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/04/google_android/
>>>>
>>>> I'm pretty sure they all do this (Apple, Google, someotherguy).
>>>>
>>>> I never expect ANY privacy on my phone, so never use is for things that
>>>> require privacy. I assume that Google knows every keystroke I make. Then,
>>>> on my only other device using Google (one browser on my desktop), I am
>>>> careful what I do in that browser.
>>>>
>>>> This is one reason I've never trusted encrypted comm apps at all. Since my
>>>> phone can see what I type and read, so can Google. They can see it when
>>>> it's not encrypted yet, or already decrypted.
>>>
>>> Definitely google can.  That's how it's able to make suggestions on how
>>> to finish what you were typing.  If it didn't know what you'd written,
>>> the suggestions woudln't make sense.
>>
>> It depends on your keyboard choice, and it is clearly stated when you
>> select it.
> 
> Maybe in Spain it's clearly stated, or maybe if you actually select it
> and don't just use the default that comes installed, or maybe both.   At
> any rate, I don't think I ever saw it stated that what I type could be
> read by someone else.   Or even an implication that another keyboard
> would not allow this.

The normal keyboard is silent. But some of the variants you can enable 
have a text that say that google reads what you type. For instance, the 
dictation "keyboard". And they warn you about it in the context of 
typing passwords.


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.