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Re:What’s stored in a school Google Drive account? by RandallBrown on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @09:31AM (#18024016)
> “My voice to text was being stored as well as any search my kids did, and I could say ‘sure my daughter was searching on Google,’ but my phone uses Safari. When I used my texting app on my iPhone, it recorded my voice, as well as typing out the words and saving it on my Google Drive,” said Brette Hay, the Ely’s daughter and a teacher at Pershing Middle School.

If it's possible to get voice recordings out of the iMessage app from a separate app (shouldn't be possible from an iMessage app either) this would be a major security hole and Apple would be pissed at google for doing it.

This is almost certainly a misunderstanding of what's actually going on.

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Re:What’s stored in a school Google Drive account? by Lifesnoozer on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @09:38AM (#18024074)
The texting app might not be iMessage
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Re:What’s stored in a school Google Drive account? by Rjevski on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @09:41AM (#18024093)
It was most likely WhatsApp, which as far as I know allows backing up to Google Drive.
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Re:What’s stored in a school Google Drive account? by drdaeman on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @11:18AM (#18024765)
iOS WhatsApp backs up to iCloud. Don't see any Google Drive option.
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Re:What’s stored in a school Google Drive account? by fergbrain on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @12:24PM (#18025362)
Correct, it’s an Android-only option: https://faq.whatsapp.com/en/android/28000019/?category=52452...
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Re:What’s stored in a school Google Drive account? by PascLeRasc on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @11:24AM (#18024832)
Could be Hangouts, but I can't imagine the type of baby boomer who's making this claim using it.
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Re:What’s stored in a school Google Drive account? by londons_explore on Friday September 21, 2018 @05:53AM (#18038453)
They're probably using the Google Keyboard and it's voice typing feature.

If you enable it, it can keep a history of what you have said tied to your account.

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