Snowden on Allo: It's Google Surveillance, so Don't use messaging and personal assistant app

Edward Snowden's take on Allo is Nope. Google's decision to back off a previously promised privacy feature for Allo earned it a thumbs-down from the NSA whistleblower, who received asylum from Russia after exposing the NSA's secret domestic surveillance programs. Allo, a personal messaging and assistance app which lacks previously promised security safeguards, amounts to Google Surveillance, Snowden tweeted Wednesday. So Don't use Allo.

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