So that data discussed in the AI article consisting of of "approximately 4 terabytes of personal data, amounting to about 1.2 billion records, compiled into databases." is very likely the "free" data that People Data Labs offers. The paid stuff is far more detailed, extensive, and personal.
No news about Apple. Oh! Let's just add A still from an Apple marketing campaign. Smart News.
At the end of the article it mentions Cook has suggested restrictions on corporate data harvesting and data sharing to prevent exactly this sort of problem.
Yes, but Apple is not in the 1.2 billion.
Who said it was?
Lots of stories on AI cover Google, Facebook, and other big tech stories. That this data harvesting and unsecured storage on a publicly discoverable sever involves firms like Google, a competitor of Apple...
Yup the story involved Google in the same way a story about fruit flies mentioning one was found sitting on a MacBook. It doesn't make it an Apple or Google story.
The fact that Mr. Cook uses privacy as a defining marketing schema does make it an appropriate subject for an article IMHO tho using an iPhone would in no way prevent you being one of the 1.2 billion people whose personal and even sensitive information is for direct sale.
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Adobe, Salesforce, Oracle and Marketo.
https://adage.com/article/digital/marketing-technology-explained/308661
and this page broadly explains where People's Data Lab gets its personal data. In a nutshell 1000's of sources.
https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/data-sources
You can even download some free sample datasets from them, ones that most of us would consider to be personal data
https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/open-data
So that data discussed in the AI article consisting of of "approximately 4 terabytes of personal data, amounting to about 1.2 billion records, compiled into databases." is very likely the "free" data that People Data Labs offers. The paid stuff is far more detailed, extensive, and personal.
The fact that Mr. Cook uses privacy as a defining marketing schema does make it an appropriate subject for an article IMHO tho using an iPhone would in no way prevent you being one of the 1.2 billion people whose personal and even sensitive information is for direct sale.