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Google Allo surpasses one million downloads but Snowden does not want you to use it

To less than a week that is launched Google Allo, the new application of messaging instant that will seek to be the competition direct of WhatsApp and similar, is has attained already the brand of a million of downloads. But not like that to Edward Snowden.

According to a report by 9to5Google, only in the Play Store, Google Allo has already been downloaded over one million times and is already at the top of the lists of popularity of the platform. It is a figure considerably elevated, especially if it is carrying active application and time that the record is not even considering users of iOS.

While, on the other hand, the concern expressed by Edward Snowden, four months ago, keeping current, in a situation where the activist has not released toe the line, pointing out that Google Allo may be considered as a new type of surveillance and that it should not be used.

Free for download today: Google Mail, Google Maps, and Google Surveillance. That’s #Allo. Don’t use Allo. https://t.co/EdPRC0G7Py

-Edward Snowden (@Snowden) September 21, 2016

Edward notes as reference an The Verge, where talk directly about the subtle changes, privacy, implemented discount Google Allo.

At first promised a messaging platform fully encrypted, and now, for some reason, all that has changed, leaving the incognito mode as a complementary function, activated on request of the user. Which may represent a safety problem, enough to not recommend their use.

Snowden posture may sound exaggerated, but if we take into account the approach of the new tape of Jason Bourne, whose saga has distinguished itself as prophetic issues of surveillance and intrusion to citizens, already sounds so outlandish.

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