American most wanted hacker and founder of Wikileaks Edward Snowden, has join the league of backlash against Google’s smart chat app Allo over a missing privacy feature.
The tech genius Snowden took to his micro-blogging social media platform Twitter, to express the missing privacy feature promise by Google.
Allo is an instant messaging mobile app developed by Google that includes a virtual assistant and provides a “smart reply” function that allows users to reply without typing. It was announced at Google I/O on May 18, 2016 and launched on September 21, 2016. The app is available on Android and iOS .
Tech publications ZDNET, noted that Google seems to have gone back on a promise that Allo would delete messages from Google servers after a short time. In reality, Allo actually stores the messages indefinitely unless users delete them. “Don’t use Allo,” Snowden tweeted.
However, Google’s Allo is currently available in south-African, yet to be available in Nigeria.