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by colbyh
3686 days ago
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the author doesn't seem to know much about how the internet works, quite frankly. they assume that there's some inherent level of privacy in any chat that isn't e-to-e encrypted. for instance, with FB: "With M, you are speaking one-on-one with a bot, the bot isn’t monitoring every single thing you say to your friends." how is that even relevant in this context? you're not comparing Allo to M in isolation, you have to compare it to both M and the Messenger product. in that case, FB is obviously harvesting data from your conversations. even if it is just to train M on how to communicate (a very big if) they would be insane not to. the author doesn't understand much about the ecosystem as a whole (and considers Allo to be a market leader before launch). lazy reporting, and quite disappointing. |
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I've noticed over past year that internet security / privacy has become something of a clickbait topic for media outlets with no reputation for writing about it. Usually after reading one paragraph that becomes all too apparent. Sadly that doesn't prevent the headline from becoming mythological truth in internet time.