<story><title>Android phones are sending significant amount of user data with no opt-out [pdf]</title><url>https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/Android_privacy_report.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nimbius</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;play.google.com&amp;#x2F;store&amp;#x2F;apps&amp;#x2F;details?id=org.dslul.openboard.inputmethod.latin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;play.google.com&amp;#x2F;store&amp;#x2F;apps&amp;#x2F;details?id=org.dslul.open...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;OpenBoard is a 100% foss keyboard based on AOSP, with no dependency on Google binaries, that respects your privacy.</text></item><item><author>autoexec</author><text>Last I checked the default keyboard samsung installs on their phones was collecting what you typed and sharing&amp;#x2F;selling that data with third parties. I try not to store or access any personal information on my cell phones when i can avoid it, but at a certain point, just having one is enough to seriously compromise your privacy. Strong regulation with real sharp teeth is the only thing that can fix this situation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hbcondo714</author><text>Thanks for this, just installed it and when I click to enable in my settings, I get an Attention message:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;OpenBoard may be able to collect all the text you type, including personal data such as passwords and credit card numbers&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This appears to be from Samsung, trying to deter users from using keyboards other than their own.</text></comment>
<story><title>Android phones are sending significant amount of user data with no opt-out [pdf]</title><url>https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/Android_privacy_report.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nimbius</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;play.google.com&amp;#x2F;store&amp;#x2F;apps&amp;#x2F;details?id=org.dslul.openboard.inputmethod.latin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;play.google.com&amp;#x2F;store&amp;#x2F;apps&amp;#x2F;details?id=org.dslul.open...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;OpenBoard is a 100% foss keyboard based on AOSP, with no dependency on Google binaries, that respects your privacy.</text></item><item><author>autoexec</author><text>Last I checked the default keyboard samsung installs on their phones was collecting what you typed and sharing&amp;#x2F;selling that data with third parties. I try not to store or access any personal information on my cell phones when i can avoid it, but at a certain point, just having one is enough to seriously compromise your privacy. Strong regulation with real sharp teeth is the only thing that can fix this situation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>autoexec</author><text>Once I realized what samsung was doing I switched to AnySoftKeyboard and I&amp;#x27;m pretty happy with it. It&amp;#x27;s got a lot of options.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;f-droid.org&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;packages&amp;#x2F;com.menny.android.anysoftkeyboard&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;f-droid.org&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;packages&amp;#x2F;com.menny.android.anysoftkey...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>