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"According to an analysis by StockApps.com"

This is actually a lie, and the article appears to be mainly clickbait for StockApps. Notice that the chart says "Source:digitalinformationworld". I found this here:

https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2022/05/study-shows-...

But that article is just a rehash of the original source:

https://www.security.org/resources/data-tech-companies-have/

So we have here an extremely roundabout series of links, from macrumors to stockapps to digitalinformationworld to security.org.

"Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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And all the staff of "security.org" have a company called Centerfield listed as their employer in their Linkedin profiles.

Centerfield has the following description on its page:

> "Super-powered customer acquisition. We deliver outcome-based personalized omni-channel digital marketing solutions."

Not quite the authority I would trust regarding user privacy.

Ok sure but did you read the actual source?

All they did was read the privacy policies of all these companies and make these pretty charts comparing what they can and can't collect on you. Then they added up the points. It's extremely transparent about its methodology. And something you can easily check yourself (i.e. open up the privacy policies yourself and double check that Apple in fact can NOT collect your metadata on your stored photos)

Summarizing the source article:

Google: F

Facebook: C

Amazon: B-

Apple: A+

Twitter: C-

Amazing how the “summary” made Facebook look to be better than Amazon and on par with Apple.

C is not better than B-?

No, it is not.

I think that was a_t48's point. smugma was suggesting Facebook (C) was better than Amazon (B-) and a_t48 was pointing out that that was wrong...

That's correct (I got the grades right but my summary was wrong).

Sorry for the crudeness of this reply but in this lineup an A+ is the digital equivalent of "just the tip"

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