Google Allo 減弱了本來的安全設計:「Google backs off on previously announced Allo privacy feature」。
藉由修改預設行為減弱:
The version of Allo rolling out today will store all non-incognito messages by default — a clear change from Google’s earlier statements that the app would only store messages transiently and in non-identifiable form.
本來的預設值不會記錄身份,現在會了。而 The Verge 的猜設是這樣可以減少其他類似的情況,藉以討好政府:
That leaves Google with much less danger of the kind of legal showdown Apple faced in San Bernardino and WhatsApp currently faces in Brazil.