Google reading signal messages?

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• DavidGarcia@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think that is a feature of Google Assistant or some other Google product. It reads everything you have on your screen at any moment to give you “smart” help like easy opening of addresses or phone numbers.

  also your keyboard might be leaking data too

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• bug@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Assuming this is on an android phone with the normal Google Play Services on it then you should expect that Google can theoretically read anything that appears on it. It’s probably not that sinister though, I don’t imagine anything is being sent away and logged (though it theoretically could be!), there’s probably just some process which reads every incoming notification and if it thinks it sounds like a task then it offers you the prompt. Is this some setting you haven’t disabled in Google Assistant?

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• Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I believe signal uses google to push the notifications and if its giving you the option to add it to google keep the phone obviously know what it is the message content.

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  • superkret@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Please take these and use as many as you need:

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    • cheese_greater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Better commas than paragraphs lol. I despise walls of text. This just makes me tired and runon sentence

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  • Spotlight7573@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    While Signal does use Google’s notification system, my understanding is that they just use it as a way to wake up the app on the phone and have it check for new messages rather than sending any message content this way. The notification system that the operating system provides on the phone would still have access to the message data in the locally generated message notification with the actual content however, along with any apps that you give access to your notifications.

    It may be something like Android System Intelligence or another similar service doing it: support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/12112173?hl=…

    Notification management: Adds action buttons to notifications. For example, the action buttons could add directions to a place, help you track a package, or add a contact.

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    • Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Very interesting thank you for the insight!

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• jet@hackertalks.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Does the message contents pop up in the new message notification?

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  • Lime66@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes

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    • jet@hackertalks.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      yeah notification contents are not private, google tries to do fun stuff based on notification bubbles.

      Turn off message contents in your notifications and the problem should stop

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