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Android client for Project Tox - Secure Peer to Peer Messaging
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Set Android 6 backup policy #180

Open TheLastProject opened 8 years ago

TheLastProject commented 8 years ago

Android 6 includes a new system to back up the app and all its data to Google Drive. Here's a screenshot from Ars Technica:

See anything scary? Yes, "potentially sensitive data such as [...] messages". While I do not use Google Play Services myself, chatting with contacts who would use it would mean all messages would get uploaded to Google, which pretty much erases the privacy part that Tox is all about.

It would be good to set a sane backup policy, most likely excluding the following specifically:

I am not sure how close this would be to disabling backups completely.

More information about setting a backup policy can be found on https://developer.android.com/training/backup/autosyncapi.html.

LuccoJ commented 8 years ago

Are we quite sure this is different from the previously existing Google backup service, except explained more thoroughly in the interface?