I recently asked the /c/Android community what information Google has access to on stock Android, assuming the user is not using any Google apps, and was told Google has full “unstoppable” access to the entire device, including Signal messages, the microphone, duckduckgo search history and anything displayed on the screen at all times.

Does this mean that encrypted messaging is essentially pointless to use on Android? I’m a newb here so go easy on me.

  • ragas@lemmy.ml
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    11 hours ago

    It is not pointless.

    1. You still make everyone else unable to read your messages.
    2. Even though google can in theory read everything, it depends on how shady they are and definitely is illegal in some countries for them to actually do read everything.