Trusting Google Messages vs Your Cell Phone Provider

Since Google Messages in RCS-enabled e2e encrypted, it is a very useable replacement for Signal for those unwilling to use the latter. But is trusting Google with your RCS metadata and SMS data that much better than trusting your cell provider with all your SMS data?

For example, T-mobile has had numerous data breaches and tracks you numerous ways. On their privacy dashboard, the following options must be disabled:

* Analytics and reporting
* Let us analyze your data and …

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