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Tell HN: Google Intercepting SMS
5 by version_five | 5 comments on Hacker News.
I'm probably late to this. Today, my Samsung phone started intercepting my SMS conversations to provide "chat" features: the typing dots and read receipts. It did it without my permission and without me installing any updated. In the settings there was a (I'm paraphrasing) "let google steal your data to enable rich chat" popup, that I clicked no to, and it appears to have gone away. I know iPhone already does this, personally I don't want it, and it's super unethical to just start intercepting SMS without opt-in.

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