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In 2019, Google was fined €50 Million by the French CNIL for a lack of information regarding their users.

Two years later, in 2021, researcher Douglas Leith, using a sort of data interception, showed that several data are sent from Android device to Google 's servers, even when the phone is sleeping (IDLE) with no Google account registered into it. Several Google applications send data, such as Chrome, Message or Docs, however Youtube is the only one to add a unique identifier data.

In 2022, Leith showed that an Android phone sent various data related to communications, including phone and text messages to Google. Timestamp, sender and receiver, plus several other data, are sent to Google Play Services infrastructure, even if the "Usage and Diag" feature is disabled. Those data are marked with a Unique Identifier of an Android device, and don't comply with GPDR.