May be they are reading the notification using notifications reading service (Feature in Android) and use intents to send messages.
But from intent you can either share (user action) a message to a particular contact or automatically open whatsapp on a particular contact and prefill the message in text box.
May be whatapp may have exposed an intent to directly send message or they are just prefilling the text box
Google can now read your WhatsApp messages
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#162WhatsApp by default backs up messages to Google Drive. It has done so for many years. Google likely already has all your chat data.
That data is encrypted
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
As someone without a digital life, Simple ≠ Easy.
I find it pretty easy. I don't have WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, LinkIn, or anything else really besides a few forum memberships like the one here.
Your ISP and device manufacturers are still tracking you though?
Re: Google can now read your WhatsApp messages
#164WhatsApp by default backs up messages to Google Drive. It has done so for many years. Google likely already has all your chat data.
That data is encrypted
Now it is, but when they offered this feature initially it wasn't, and when they added the feature, you had to go in the options to turn it on. Evil.
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#165People have been clowning on Apple for being behind on the AI stuff and -- while I'd never defend how they promised a bunch of features in 2024, showed them in ads, and sold iPhones based on vaporware, but still haven't shipped most of the features -- I will say, I imagine a lot of the hold-up is because they realized how dangerous it is to start trusting AI with the sensitive data on your phone. It's probably not to…
> but even if there's a 0.0001% chance the AI will send a sensitive image meant for your wife to your boss, you should probably reconsider shipping. That's too low of a probability for Apple to care. The probability that YOU would do it yourself by some random series of accidents is probably orders of magnitude higher than that. Do you really think you're going to send 1,000,000 nudes to your wife without accidentall…
> Do you really think you're going to send 1,000,000 nudes to your wife without accidentally sending one to the wrong person!?
That seems like the wrong way to spin this hypothetical probability.
A quick search says there are 1.38B iPhone users worldwide. According to[0], 87.8% of 18+ year olds have sexted, so let's estimate that to mean 1.21B users. Even if we assume users only ever send one nude, that means 1,210 gaffes if you assume one in a million.
Re: Google can now read your WhatsApp messages
#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
> but even if there's a 0.0001% chance the AI will send a sensitive image meant for your wife to your boss, you should probably reconsider shipping. That's too low of a probability for Apple to care. The probability that YOU would do it yourself by some random series of accidents is probably orders of magnitude higher than that. Do you really think you're going to send 1,000,000 nudes to your wife without accidentall…
> Do you really think you're going to send 1,000,000 nudes to your wife without accidentally sending one to the wrong person!? That seems like the wrong way to spin this hypothetical probability. A quick search says there are 1.38B iPhone users worldwide. According to[0], 87.8% of 18+ year olds have sexted, so let's estimate that to mean 1.21B users. Even if we assume users only ever send one nude, that means 1,210 g…
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Re: Google can now read your WhatsApp messages
#167People have been clowning on Apple for being behind on the AI stuff and -- while I'd never defend how they promised a bunch of features in 2024, showed them in ads, and sold iPhones based on vaporware, but still haven't shipped most of the features -- I will say, I imagine a lot of the hold-up is because they realized how dangerous it is to start trusting AI with the sensitive data on your phone. It's probably not to…
> even if there's a 0.0001% chance the AI will send a sensitive image meant for your wife to your boss, you should probably reconsider shipping. Not the best example since Siri has been misunderstanding us for many, many years. You really meant to send that I love you to Louis coworker, right? Not to "Love"? Too late
> You really meant to send that I love you to Louis coworker, right? Not to "Love"? Too late
Why make up stuff like this? Siri confirms everything that sends data.
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#168The whole situation with Gemini Apps Activity setting is so frustrating. Even if I pay for Gemini Pro, the only way to make sure there will be no human looking at your chats is to set Apps Activity to off, which means you don't have any history for Gemini chats, even for the messages from a minute ago.
Another option although it requires using another account is using Gemini for Google Workspace.
Thanks for the suggestion!
I actually see that
Business Standard Google Workspace (for 1 user) that includes Gemini Access costs less than Gemini Pro subscription for an individual. I will give it a go.
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#169These big tech companies are so frustrating. Why does every single aspect of our digital lives need to be monitored? It’s like whack a mole trying to get the most basic of privacy.
money
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#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, really the line was crossed when Google Play Services got special privileges (and third party app developers were encouraged to call on Google Play Services as the only practical way to do various things, some of which maybe should have been part of the OS). And the "assistant" crap, and whatever else. ... and GraphenOS isn't exactly a fork , but it's plugging away, fighting the good fight, doing things like ma…
Devils advocate: Google Play Services was the right solution to all the clamoring about Android fragmentation and OEMs abandoning devices by not providing upgrades.
I agree that Google Play Services was the right solution to fragmentation. I also agree that having forks like GrapheneOS was the right solution for a subset of people who like to de-Google themselves.