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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You understand that by submitting every incoming call to Google for verification, they are mapping your network of friends and family, right? This is the stuff Snowden revealed that the NSA (and the five eyes and beyond) were doing...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

You do know that many of these processes are done with on-device intelligence?

Also, telecoms in Canada are worse with privacy since they sell your location data to third parties.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If one is using Google services which is most likely the case if they're using one of the popular Android phones that has Call Screen, then Google already has the ability to do that via multiple other avenues like Contacts, Gmail, Calendar, Photos, Docs, call logs and others. Not to mention they have root on every Android phone with Google Apps on it, but let's assume they're only collecting what you agreed to. In other words if one is in bed with Google services, adding Call Screen to the mix isn't increasing the amount of exposure by a significant amount. If we're in bed with Google anyways and they're doing everything you mentioned, we may as well get more services rendered for that.

Personally I'm very much in bed with Google ever since the Gmail beta in 2004-5. I'm not ecstatic about it. That's a risk I'm monitoring and have some mitigations in place for. I'm also not letting anyone else in my bed because every additional bedfellow is additional risk. E.g. Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta or some small questionable entities like Brave.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of my data is end-to-end encrypted with alternatives and I use very few Google services other than Android and YouTube. I've done my research and honestly, Google and iOS are very similar in terms of privacy practices. They both phone home a lot of diagnostic and telemetry information, but I am aware of all these practices and adjust my behaviours accordingly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Same, except I probably use a bit more than just YouTube and Android.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I’m also not letting anyone else in my bed because every additional bedfellow is additional risk. E.g. Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta or some small questionable entities like Brave.

Hmm, I don't know if that's the case? eg. mightn't giving Google both your search queries and your emails paint a more detailed picture of you than if you gave, say, Microsoft your email so Google only had your search?