A secret program called "Project Ghostbusters" saw Facebook devise a way to intercept and decrypt the encrypted network traffic of Snapchat users to study their behavior.
In evaluation of threats, that standard is way too high. The possibility is real even if unlikely. Unlikely things happen daily we just can’t predict which ones, because they’re each unlikely.
Yes, you shouldn’t download every random keyboard app on the app store or play store.
It’s just that it would be insane for an even slightly well known company to do stuff like that. I would be happy (or concerned really) to be proven wrong but that would obviously require actual evidence.
I don’t think it would be insane at all. I just think it’s unlikely. Big well known companies do wildly illegal stuff all the time, for instance, Meta (Facebook) in the article posted here.
I was pointing out that the poster was likely referring to Gboard, not that I have knowledge about any data being collected by Gboard or any other keyboard software.
Willing to bet they meant in the context of whatever you search for with Google.
Or the default Gboard on Android phones.
That is what I thought they meant.
Tracking the keyboard like they said would be extremely invasive and extremely illegal.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
(And yes some local tracking is needed to predict words but that’s very different from collecting data)
In evaluation of threats, that standard is way too high. The possibility is real even if unlikely. Unlikely things happen daily we just can’t predict which ones, because they’re each unlikely.
Many shiti keyboard got caught logging tho
So it is not unheard of
Yes, you shouldn’t download every random keyboard app on the app store or play store.
It’s just that it would be insane for an even slightly well known company to do stuff like that. I would be happy (or concerned really) to be proven wrong but that would obviously require actual evidence.
I don’t think it would be insane at all. I just think it’s unlikely. Big well known companies do wildly illegal stuff all the time, for instance, Meta (Facebook) in the article posted here.
Does this include aosp keyboard too?
I was pointing out that the poster was likely referring to Gboard, not that I have knowledge about any data being collected by Gboard or any other keyboard software.