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Being open source doesn’t impart any modicum of security to an app. It does introduce the ability for someone to push malicious code to it and have it accepted by a maintainer. There’s not enough oversight and free labor available to review the code for every open source project throughly.
So, while you may not trust Google with your data, you should similarly not trust FOSS just because it’s open source and not Google.
Being open source doesn’t impart any modicum of security to an app. It does introduce the ability for someone to push malicious code to it and have it accepted by a maintainer. There’s not enough oversight and free labor available to review the code for every open source project throughly.
So, while you may not trust Google with your data, you should similarly not trust FOSS just because it’s open source and not Google.