Episode 005: Voice
I’m in the process of getting rid of my Google Voice number. I signed up for one to have a dedicated number for work-related calls, texts, and voicemail.
But I no longer trust Alphabet, Inc. (Google’s parent company) or any of its products.
It’s not that I’m worried that someone or some corporation has access to my information. It’s that they are using it, mining it, and combining it with other users’ data without our consent, and then selling it to whomever is willing to pay for it.
I’m beginning the slow and arduous process of extricating myself from the Alphabet soup of Google products. For email, that means the end-to-end encryption of Proton Mail. But it’s going to be a slow process.
In our next episode, we’ll talk about who is listening in (all the time).