All set to take on WhatsApp, but is Google Allo safe enough?
TechEdward Snowden is a man with a million dollar price on his head, and he's still risking his neck to warn us against using Google's recently launched Allo app, a modified version of text-messaging.Okay, so it may not be as dramatic as all that, and Snowden does have a highly active Twitter profile.But if the former NSA Contractor, who managed to unleash mounds of confidential data on the US Government's illegal misdeeds to the public, is warning you about the privacy limitation of an app, you'll probably want to double-check on it too.
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11 Ways in which Google Allo is different from Whatsapp
Google launched their Allo smartphone app recently and the messenger app which hopes to taken on the well established giants like Whatsapp, Hike, Snapchat and others.Goole entered the messenger fray a little late but will it be too ate for Googl?Only time will tell that.
7 reasons why Google Allo will kill Whatsapp
TechWe live in an age where technology rules almost every aspect of our overbooked schedules.Today, almost all of our actions, hobbies and even free thought stems from what we read or see online, or which apps clogging up our now limited 16 GB memory space, can offer us.These give us the easiest medium to communicate with fellow humans, even robots (case in point Siri and Cortana) and cares nought for geography, since you can virtually be facing your sister living overseas- spending hours 'hanging out' like you would in your room at home.
Google backs off on previously announced Allo privacy feature
When Allo was announced at Google's I/O conference earlier this year, the messaging app was presented as a step forward for privacy.Alongside the end-to-end-encrypted Incognito Mode, the Allo team talked about bold new message retention practices, storing messages only transiently rather than indefinitely.But with the release of the app today, Google is backing off on some of those features.
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