Verified SMS from Google(blog.google)

22 pointsby coloneltcbvor 7 Jahren5 comments

https://www.blog.google/products/messages/safer-conversations-messages-verified-sms-and-spam-protection/

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So this means that when sending or receiving, if you have this 'update "turned on"' - the local cell tower gets my message, whatever phone companies that own the lines around there get my messages, att gets my messages, my cell phone provider gets my messages, my friend has the message recorded in reverse by his/her cell co, whatever company owns the tower that is local to them, and who ever runs the transit to / from there, and now ALSO google gets my messages?

So they can all read them, store them, give them / sell them to other people... I understand that the phone companies have certain, (imho not enough), regulatory issues with carrying data, but I'm not sure google's new intercept for spam and badge service does similarly..

I now also wonder, even though I denied the update, but what if the gf/bf accepted the update, that means google is getting a copy via their intercept right?

Can someone offer a rough calculation of how many people have easy access to all our text messages? (not including big DB hacks like the recent one from that B2B co) - just in general.

There are some things I liked about this rcs update, but at what cost.

RKearneyvor 7 Jahren

> and now ALSO google gets my messages?

From the linked article:

> When a message is verified—which is done without sending your messages to Google—you’ll see the business name and logo as well as a verification badge in the message thread.

stevenicrvor 7 Jahren

Thanks for the info there, I see near the end in regards to the spam issue is also says: "Spam protection, which works with your message data while keeping your messages private"

It's partially because of my assumptions that they would need to see messages in order to determine if they are spam or from a 'verified' business.. but also language like this:

"we warn you of suspected spam and unsafe websites we’ve detected. If you see a suspected spam warning in Messages you can help us improve our spam models by letting us know if it’s spam or not."

Makes it sounds like they (google) are detecting spam sites, and we can engage in 'letting us know' - like it's a connect with google..

but I guess there is some other way they are handling this stuff (a shared db af bad stuff between carriers so only they need to read msgs?) and keeping 'your message private' - which now I have to read that and wonder if that means something slightly different than what I first thought it did..

techntokevor 7 Jahren

It appears based one recent updates that Google is abandoning Hangouts and reverting back to Google Voice.

bynkmanvor 7 Jahren

I recently had to stop using Hangouts, having to change to messages.google.com. I liked the Hangouts web UI better. There's some unfriendliness to Messages. I understand Google wanting to consolidate messaging. I just wish they would have merged all their messaging in a sensible way.