Allo Messenger can send the other party your search history

Built-in instant messenger Google Assistant turned talker. The assistant can show your search history people you write posts.

But first things first. Allo - a new text chat from Google for Android and iOS. Just like Viber, and other instant messengers, it is tied to a phone number. And apart from the competition a special chip - enabled intelligent assistant Google Assistant.

@Google typing in chat, chat conversation in question the assistant can be asked to find out the necessary information. For example, discussing with a friend where to go to eat, you can ask Google Assistant to find a restaurant near you.

More assistant analyzes the conversation itself can provide useful links on the topic. And even suggest how to respond to the other party in your style that you do not have to type the text.

Allo have a dark side, which caused some users criticized the application.

1. The default encryption messenger disabled end-to-end, so that messages are available to law enforcement agencies. In addition, Google will store your chat history on its servers.
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2. Those who were not too keen on the Hangouts, do not expect that Google can make a quality messenger. And those who like Hangouts, believe that he still Allo to grow and grow. Both sides offer to upgrade the old messenger, rather than to produce a new useless software.
3. Allo - this is only text chat. Along with him in the last year launched a video calling service Google Duo, which caused bewilderment: why do separately.
4. In detail: it does not support SMS and save correspondence in the cloud. It runs only on a single device. And at one time, you can send only one photo.
5. The main function of which is selected Allo, - Google Assistant with the most intelligent answers and recommendations. But Assistant does not support the Russian language. With Google Play, promise that there will be soon.
6. When Google Assistant will appear in Russian, will get out of its shortcomings, which are already facing users of the English version. He can advise is not the topic, and, moreover, violate privacy.

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Try out Allo journalist decided to test the ability of the assistant. The conversation with the machine, which began with the question "Are you a bot" went well, until the assistant has not given: "This is what I found." And he found he was not related to the conversation a link to a resource on which the user was a few days ago. And well, it was the site of Harry Potter, but it could be something incriminating.

Also, the assistant should ask for permission to send, when the source asks to transfer personal data. But in practice it does not always work. The same journalist shared that Google Assistant sent interlocutor image from Google Maps with an address, without specifying whether they can share.

Maybe it's just bugs, but they can become a serious problem of confidentiality, in addition to the aforementioned lack of end-to-end-encryption by default.

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