{"id":4825,"date":"2016-05-19T09:18:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T23:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=4825"},"modified":"2016-05-19T09:18:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T23:18:47","slug":"googles-new-im-app-allo-is-creepy-as-fk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/googles-new-im-app-allo-is-creepy-as-fk\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s new IM app Allo is creepy as f@#k"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Google\u2019s new Allo and Duo chat apps: first look\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QJ3WV8N92Hs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You sign up with your phone number and you can connect your Google account to it, though there&#8217;s no need to. You can see the usual chat app stuff: there are sent and received indicators, emoji, and a big set of custom stickers. Amit Fulay, group product manager on Google&#8217;s communications products team, says that Google commissioned stickers from artists with an eye toward ensuring there was a wide diversity of options \u2014 stuff that would work in India, as well as in America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>When you send a photo, it shows up full-bleed in the screen and you can even doodle on it if you want. Another neat trick: before you hit send, you can drag your finger up or down on the button to enlarge or shrink the text. Google calls it &#8220;WhisperShout.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tin-foil hat wearers rejoice. Google will analyse every message &amp; image you send via its new IM chat app to better give you auto-responders. Hmmmmm&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>On the upside they &#8220;promise&#8221; they&#8217;re only doing it once and then discarding the data.<\/p>\n<p>They do have an &#8220;incognito&#8221; version of chat that encrypts end-to-end, presumably meaning\u00a0you lose some of that whizz-bang one click reply fun.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure this one will take off. Looking forward to next week&#8217;s podcast to discuss!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"source-link\"><span class=\"source-link\">Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/5\/18\/11699122\/google-allo-messaging-app-announced-io-2016\">Allo is a messaging app with Google built right in | The Verge<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&nbsp; You sign up with your phone number and you can connect your Google account to it, though&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}