Google Messages and Phone app were quietly sending your text messages and call logs to Google

In recent years, tech giants and other companies have come under scrutiny on how they collect and use user data. Google itself has focused on making privacy improvements to its products and services in response. However, it looks like its efforts did not go far enough. A new research paper reveals that Google's Messages and Dialer/Phone apps have been collecting and sending user data to its servers without showing any notice or taking user consent, potentially violating the European Union's GDPR.

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