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Which modern keyboards do connect to the Internet? The Apple and Google keyboards, AFACT, use private federated learning to keep their vocabularies up to date w
by 7e 2y ago
Which modern keyboards do connect to the Internet? The Apple and Google keyboards, AFACT, use private federated learning to keep their vocabularies up to date with the latest trending topics. I don’t think this solves a problem I have, unless the offline dictation is somehow much better than the best big tech has to offer.
- threwawasy1228 2y agoThere are numerous issues with the 'privacy-preserving' federated learning models that are used by Google and Apple. They have constantly been called out by privacy researchers and cryptographers due to their misuse of differential privacy. There is very little trust in the privacy-preserving measures that are being used by these companies. This is not to say that these methods are bad in general but in terms of how they are used by Google and Apple, they amount to little more than a PR stunt. There are numerous reconstruction attacks on their privacy protocols as used by things like GBoard.
- nulld3v 2y agoGBoard does kinda "keylog" in the telemetry it sends (actually, it's more "wordlog"): https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/gboard_kamil.pdf https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/gboard_kamil.pdf It will also do this even if you block the keyboard's internet access as it will use Google Play Services to send the telemetry data. Previously discussed in this deleted reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/ymo3r9/deleted_by_user/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/ymo3r9/deleted_by_... At least turning off the "Share usage statistics" option in Gboard settings actually does opt you out...
- privacyking 2y agoDo you have a source for that? Where it sends through play services if network access is disabled? What does it send specifically?
- yencabulator 2y agoRead the linked PDF.
- privacyking 2y agoIt doesn't mention anything about laundering data when network access is disabled
- yencabulator 2y agoLook for play services.
- nulld3v 2y agoFrom the linked PDF: > The telemetry sent by the Gboard application does not go directly to Google. Instead, the data goes through a service known as the Clearcut Logger within Google Play Services To be fair, I have not tested whether Gboard continues to send telemetry to GPS even after networking is disabled on Gboard but there's nothing stopping that from happening from a technical perspective. This is because Android apps access GPS over Binder and Android apps can access Binder services even if they have no INTERNET permission.
- privacyking 2y agoThanks