She never provided me with her last name, or a photo. Google decided to add that information on her behalf, without her knowledge; as the settings that dictate that behavior default to 'show name and picture to people you message'.

Previously, a recipient would receive the number you're sending from, the message you typed out, and the time it was sent. That's it. If you wanted to include more info, you could; but that's your decision, not Googles.

I'm so fucking sick of corporations 'adding new features', where they default to collecting your information and sending it to whoever they desire, then going 'oh, well you could have turned that off' as If I'm suppose to be go through every setting on every device twelve fucking times a day just to figure out and turn off whatever new data harvesting garbage they've added this time around.