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Re:Google backs off on previously announced Allo privacy fea... by Zigurd on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @09:51AM (#12548124)
That's fine as far as trusting Google keeping their employees from doing bad things.

But that's not the first concern one would have. Pervasive surveillance programs have penetrated service providers' data centers. Law enforcement can get warrants to access this information too easily, and many service providers turn over information on request, rather than requiring a warrant.

Re:Google backs off on previously announced Allo privacy fea... by themihai on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @10:49AM (#12548637)
Well if you trust Google you don't need on-disk encryption in the first place. SSL already solved the transport issue.
Re:Google backs off on previously announced Allo privacy fea... by themihai on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @01:44PM (#12550475)
My point that you have no control over the data once you send it to Google. You don't even know if they even encrypt it on their disk/server anyway.