Privacy

43225 readers

823 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 6 years ago

MODERATORS

Can Google read my Signal messages on stock Android? (lemy.lol)

submitted 6 days ago by flork@lemy.lol to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

50 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I believe notifications would be accessible. Note that i don't mean the push notification backend mentioned by Doomerang, but the actual notification that goes into your status bar (which is all processed on device). That would be readable by the OS in theory.

[–] jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 5 points 6 days ago

It's not readable by the OS in theory, it is literally readable. Displaying a notification is an API call from the app to the framework provided by google. To put it in laymans terms the app goes "hey google please display this text as a notification".