Why would a keyboard store 155 MB data?
Oh wait! It's Google's keyboard

Probably a language pack for predictive text or auto correct.

@No-one
If you keep this up then people can't continue their narrative of "hur dur everything is stealin my precious data!!"

Read about federated machine learning architecture. It was a massive advancement in the field of Machine Learning. The paper related to this was published around 1 and half years ago or less.
Google uses this technology in Google keyboard too. It's very awesome technology that can solve big problems using small distributed resources to develop better machine learning models.

@dontbeevil SwiftKey is using 68MB for me (although I am using SK Neural, which might need more space for storing NNs and stuff)

Um... okay, so it’s doing predictive text over your text history, that costs a lot on top of the 50mb or so language pack.

I think gboard also has other features like tagged emoji searching and image downloading.

I mean they’re totally sending info back to base, and you’re running their is... but on your phone everything is relatively kosher.

@Condor
O no, don't get me wrong, I've got plenty of things i like to keep hidden. Except I've come to the realisation, half the shit i think i want to keep hidden actually doesnt matter to most people because its trivial shit.

eg, too much effort for almost no value to find out what my fetish is.

@Condor
Thats fair.

The things you mentioned should be governed by law or a governing body(PCI).

I feel like what you mentioned is less data privacy and more about data security and teaching software engineers to not do something retarded.. (like putting a dev DB on a cloud provider with default login credentials and then load it up with production data and then opening it up to public access)

Ps. I didn't say I'd tell you what my fetish is, I just said it would be too much effort for you to find out and it would give you no value

@Condor
Heh that first one hit real close to home. (You wouldn't believe the PCI issues i had to fix when i started at my current job...)

And the second link I read the other day. :) Unbelievable that they would be able to obtain the private keys.

I'm all for governments becoming CAs until they obtain the privaye keys :/

@Condor
As said, if you managed to find out, I wouldn't be bothered. XD

@Condor @D--M I'd personally like to keep at least all my emails and IM's private.

Because, after all, you're not the one who decides which data is worth hiding.