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160021327 story Google's Messages and Dialer apps for Android devices have been collecting and sending data to Google without specific notice and consent, and without offering the opportunity to opt-out, potentially in violation of Europe's data protection law. From a report:
According to a research paper, "What Data Do The Google Dialer and Messages Apps On Android Send to Google?" [PDF], by Trinity College Dublin computer science professor Douglas Leith, Google Messages (for text messaging) and Google Dialer (for phone calls) have been sending data about user communications to the Google Play Services Clearcut logger service and to Google's Firebase Analytics service. The paper says that the data sent by the two companies allows linking of sender and receiver in a message exchange. The timing and duration of other user interactions with these apps has also been transmitted. There is no way to opt out of this data collection. The paper observes that both pre-installed versions of these apps lack privacy policies that explain what data gets collected. When a request was made through the Takeout for the data associated with the apps used for testing, the data was not included.
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