If you use the Google Messages and Google Phone apps as your default apps for messages and phone calls, you will probably want to change them after reading this article. Not surprisingly at all, Google uses both of these apps to—guess what—spy on you (via Android Police).
According to Douglas Leith, a computer science professor working at Trinity College Dublin, Google Messages and Google Phone apps send personal information to Google’s servers without users’ consent. In his paper titled “What Data Do The Google Dialer and Messages Apps on Android Send to Google?” Leith sheds some light on what information these apps collect and how they send it to Google.
