Four months ago, Google announced two new communication apps: Duo, for video calling, and Allo, for traditional WhatsApp-style messaging. Duo arrived for Android and iOS a month ago, while Allo is available from today. While Allo is a good looking app, it has some big privacy issues that users need to be aware of. The first, which Edward Snowden warned about, is the lack of default end-to-end encryption which, in the former NSA contractor's own words, makes it both "dangerous" and "unsafe". The other is Google will now store all non-incognito conversations on its servers permanently, or until the user…
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