Updated September 22, 2016 at 12:00 am
it Has incognito mode where conversations will be encrypted
New application features a wizard-based artificial intelligence
A new instant messaging app arrives to compete with WhatsApp, Telegram and Facebook Messenger, it’s called Google Allo, which, with just a day of being available in the stores of Android and iOS is already giving you what to talk about.
While some users venture to know and to highlight some of their virtues, as the presence of an assistant based on artificial intelligence, which allows you to search the news sites or nearby to eat, others view with suspicion the subject of privacy in this app .
Allo was announced at the annual conference of developers Google I/O in 2016, in may of this year and is an application for cell, because it requires the user to register with your phone number.
After the publication of Allo, Edward Snowden , the american computer behind the revelations about the programs secret surveillance of the united States used its official Twitter account, to recommend to people not to download Allo.
Among its arguments stated that this app would keep each message sent by users and that the information could be at the mercy of the requests of the us authorities, in case these are required.
Google does not see it as well and said that they decided to "give users the control and transparency over their data in Google Allo. It is simple: the history of your chats will be saved until the people decide to eliminate it (…) can delete their posts and whole conversations in Allo".
Likewise, the Internet giant stressed that the alternative of chat incognito, which encrypts conversations end-to-end, and even can be programmed to disappear from time to time (a minute, an hour, a day or a month).
the official blog of the company also reported that all the talks of the app are encoded, "using industry-standard technology as, for example, the Transport Layer Security (TLS)".
Miguel Pérez, professor of the master degree in Cybersecurity at the University Cenfotec explained to The Nation that this format TLS is used to show that we are on a secure web page, for example, when entering a bank, and is identified in the navigation bar for the letters https.
In the case of Allo and the chats encrypted with TLS, the communication would be the phone of the user, to the Google server, and from there, to the telephone of the receiver of the message, that is to say, that the Internet giant would have access to those data. The foregoing in order to understand the conversation and offer solutions by means of your assistant, based on artificial intelligence.
The expert said that this is already present in other services like Gmail. "When one writes, attached I send you the letter and before you send it, says: 'you said You attached and did not put any attachment'. The service uses artificial intelligence to analyze the text and know what suggestions or recommendations can you give to the person.
According to Perez, the users think that if Google can do it, a third party— who generally believed it could be the National Security Agency U.s. (NSA) — also could be looking at the content of the messages exchanged.
"That’s the concern that people have, that this type of tools of artificial intelligence, while it is true we make your life easier, we also become vulnerable because of that, because the text could analyze," he said.
The application also offers an incognito mode where messages are encrypted end-to-end, so that the information is shared only between the people who are inside the chat.
Functionality. Allo offers a sober design, with many features, among them, send audio messages, pictures on which you can draw, as well as stickers , alternatives are already providing other services of instant messaging.
The differentiator is the assistant Google, to which users will be able to inquire about from the latest news, flight status, weather reports, sports, and until the guests entertained when they’re bored, reciting to them a poem.
The application Allo offers ready-made answers calls Smart Reply.
The wizard can also be incorporated into the conversations that you hold with your contacts. How? putting in the chat box an at sign in front of the word Google, and then, making him the desired question.
For the moment, the application is only in English language, so that queries that are performed should be in that language.
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Editor-in the section of Global Village of The Nation. Journalist graduated from the University of Costa Rica. He writes about science and technology.
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