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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Lol at DoJ just releasing it, thanks I suppose.

Lol at Apple trying to wiggle its way into everything trying to fool people that they are privacy champs and everyone else using Android is a chump. I have no doubt in my mind that Apple has terabytes of data on every user. And Google maps can be used without signing in, making their argument a moot point

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (4 children)

It is worth remembering incentives though. Apple is primarily a hardware company. Most of their revenue comes from iPhones. Google is primarily an ad company that makes money selling ads, and your data.

This obviously doesn't make Apple a privacy champion , but it should be considered. Apple is at least theoretically in a position to push for the privacy of their users, while Google is not.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Apple is also trying to expand is advertising division. It might be nessecary to force companies like this to split but I doubt we will ever get such regulation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Apple also makes a fair bit of money from its software services such as the Apple subscriptions, which are massive wells of data. I do not find it strange that they care about harvesting data from their users. Every company who offers software services does the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Apple is a huge software company, what are you talking about lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Google doesn’t sell shit. They sell and target ads. If they sold your data why would people come to them to purchase ads? What advantage would they have?