Google spying on user’s data to enhance its own products. A report suggests that Google has some integral program through which its employees can access complete information on how a user uses his/her Android smartphone, i.e. how Android users are interacting with third-party apps available on their smartphones.
According to a report from the knowledge, a program called “Android Lockbox”, it’s a Google mobile service, which keeps a track of every activity what an Android user neutralize its smartphone, it keeps a record of how frequently users use non-Google apps and services (like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter), how long users use those apps, and also how apps are used on the pre-country basis.
The report clearly means Google spying on user’s data but consistent with Google, this service is primarily focussed on background service management, and therefore the company also said that this information is out there to the app developers but they will only view only their apps and products.
The report also says, when YouTube was developing a rival feature of TikTok, that point Google’s employees extracted such a lot valuable information about, how people using the app, and the way frequently they’re visiting TikTok. there’s nothing like privacy during this era of the web, with Android Lockbox, the company’s employees also can check the sensitive data about other apps including how long they’re used. This feature works on Google Mobile Service (GMS).
Google spying on user’s data to enhance its own products like they are doing while developing YouTube Shorts rival of TikTok. According to the report, “In some cases, such as YouTube in India, this data helps Google advance its own competing apps, say the people, all of whom requested anonymity to speak freely,”
According to The Verge, a Google’s spokesperson stated, “Since 2014, the Android App Usage Data API has been used by Google and Android developers who have been authorized by Android OEMs or users to access basic data about app usage — such as how often apps are opened — to analyze and improve services. The API doesn’t obtain any information about the in-app activity and our collection of this data is disclosed to and controllable by users,”
Well, this isn’t new or surprising news, and Google isn’t the sole company to spy on user’s data, a couple of days back, about 7 VPN services were trapped leaking about 1.2 TB of user’s personal data. In 2017, a piece of writing from The Wall Street Journal also stated that Facebook is employing a VPN service Oravo to watch competent apps in which the VPN service was closed in 2019.
One side these Tech giant claim that they’re going to provide secure and safe services, and launch many features like Google itself getting to launch a secure folder in its Files and on other hand, they themselves spy on our data regardless of in what way and what’s the rationale, but they’re cheating with their users.
Our most-trusted brands shouldn’t do such creepy things a minimum of and this was sad that Google spying on user’s data to reinforce their own products and services. Such actions are against user’s privacy and data security so tech companies and repair providers should lookout of their actions.
