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The most popular Chinese keyboard app which is used by more than 450 million monthly users sends every key typed to Tencent in China. (citizenlab.ca)
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Vulnerabilities in Sogou Keyboard encryption expose keypresses to network eavesdropping.

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[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 58 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you have any evidence that it does, it would be big news. Please share.

[–] knock@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean he's not wrong, but also not really the same thing. Gboard does send a substantial amount of data about the things you typed to google. It is supposedly anonymous, but they do this to get anylitics, and they use this data to improve the suggestions given to you.

There has been at least one article where someone intercepted the data leaving from Gboard and found it's either unencrypted or just hashed into something like base64. This was a while back so things hopefully changed.

While google does try not to phone home users passwords, how can you tell what is and isent private?