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The most popular Chinese keyboard app which is used by more than 450 million monthly users sends every key typed to Tencent in China. (citizenlab.ca)
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Vulnerabilities in Sogou Keyboard encryption expose keypresses to network eavesdropping.

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[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Gboard doesn't at least. It does send some stuff but not keystrokes

[–] echo64@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It sends whole words instead!

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Any data you submit to Google is stored and analysed. That's different from sending keystrokes as they happen though.

I'm all for criticising invasive data use and collection which Google is definitely guilty of. It's not the same as keylogging though which is not just a privacy concern but a pretty serious security one as well. Also we have actual evidence here of Tencent doing this which makes a difference to me at least.

[–] supercheesecake@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

I’m not sure if that’s true. You know, it’s Google. Every keystroke in your gmail email is analysed, so can’t imagine gboard is any different to them.

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

We can't know for sure if they're not open source