Important questions:
1. Do they share this data with people?
2. Is this data anonymized?
3. Is this data directly monetized, or otherwise give incentives to violate user privacy?
1. Do they share this data with people?
2. Is this data anonymized?
3. Is this data directly monetized, or otherwise give incentives to violate user privacy?
- handled
- available for access by employees
- retained, deleted, and stored
etc.. are at least as important for your privacy.
As someone who works in security, I am as concerned or more about the seemingly inevitable breach's impact on my privacy.
Google was once the "don't be evil" company.
So it is simple: Apple has a choice. Google doesn’t.
Where? I can't identify a single non-tech-oriented person in my life who makes phone purchasing decisions based off of vague notions like privacy.
In fact, I'd say that the market does not demand privacy, it is ambivalent to it. I don't agree with ambivalence, but I also don't see consumers making privacy-minded purchases, either.