"Google does not sell personal information..." "Google uses differential privacy to prevent advertisers from learning about you..." "settings can be changed by the user to limit data collection..." "a new incognito mode for Google Maps exists."
Love seeing the AI editor clarifying this for those who still seem so confused by it here on AppleInsider. Get out ahead of some who incessantly post misinformation and outright FUD. Well done.
Now everyone get back to using the map service you find most useful or convenient whether from Apple or Google or TomTom or ...
When people say sell your data it’s almost always shorthand for selling access to your data.
Also, as we have linked to you before, shadow profiles is a thing and there are companies who can piece them together somehow from all the tracked data.
"Google does not sell personal information..." "Google uses differential privacy to prevent advertisers from learning about you..." "settings can be changed by the user to limit data collection..." "a new incognito mode for Google Maps exists."
Love seeing the AI editor clarifying this for those who still seem so confused by it here on AppleInsider. Get out ahead of some who incessantly post misinformation and outright FUD. Well done.
Now everyone get back to using the map service you find most useful or convenient whether from Apple or Google or TomTom or ...
You've missed the point, GoogleGuy
We're well aware of what they say they do.
The concern is what they're actually doing.
Little tricks like ignoring user preferences to extract data from Safari don't inspire trust.
Oh, that thing about a decade ago? Gotcha. BTW, pretty sure that's a failed effort since everyone ignores it. "Do Not Track" was always a voluntary thing. Even Apple stopped honoring it and removed it as a user option in Safari altogether last year. Google was fined for improperly advising Safari users they didn't need to do anything else to "opt out", not for ad tracking. Still it was a bad Google moment.
But yeah, wave that flag, no one ever changes....
For reasons you’ve yet to disclose, you continue to pretend there aren’t leaks from google servers on a regular basis. There was just one last month or so about tracked user data accidentally being exposed on public servers, and as i recall Google was one of the collectors or it was their server or something.
In short, they sure aren’t Fort Knox. Even when they aren’t intentionally trying to circumvent user privacy, it gets out.
"Google does not sell personal information..." "Google uses differential privacy to prevent advertisers from learning about you..." "settings can be changed by the user to limit data collection..." "a new incognito mode for Google Maps exists."
Love seeing the AI editor clarifying this for those who still seem so confused by it here on AppleInsider. Get out ahead of some who incessantly post misinformation and outright FUD. Well done.
Now everyone get back to using the map service you find most useful or convenient whether from Apple or Google or TomTom or ...
When people say sell your data it’s almost always shorthand for selling access to your data.
Also, as we have linked to you before, shadow profiles is a thing and there are companies who can piece them together somehow from all the tracked data.
Yes there are companies out there piecing together data. There are thousands of data brokers ranging from the credit bureaus who do far more than we suspect to Oracle and Adobe and lots and lots of smaller players, all of who buy the puzzle pieces and sell a finished picture. Google is not a data-broker. I've linked that for you too many times to count.
"Google does not sell personal information..." "Google uses differential privacy to prevent advertisers from learning about you..." "settings can be changed by the user to limit data collection..." "a new incognito mode for Google Maps exists."
Love seeing the AI editor clarifying this for those who still seem so confused by it here on AppleInsider. Get out ahead of some who incessantly post misinformation and outright FUD. Well done.
Now everyone get back to using the map service you find most useful or convenient whether from Apple or Google or TomTom or ...
You've missed the point, GoogleGuy
We're well aware of what they say they do.
The concern is what they're actually doing.
Little tricks like ignoring user preferences to extract data from Safari don't inspire trust.
Oh, that thing about a decade ago? Gotcha. BTW, pretty sure that's a failed effort since everyone ignores it. "Do Not Track" was always a voluntary thing. Even Apple stopped honoring it and removed it as a user option in Safari altogether last year. Google was fined for improperly advising Safari users they didn't need to do anything else to "opt out", not for ad tracking. Still it was a bad Google moment.
But yeah, wave that flag, no one ever changes....
For reasons you’ve yet to disclose, you continue to pretend there aren’t leaks from google servers on a regular basis. There was just one last month or so about tracked user data accidentally being exposed on public servers, and as i recall Google was one of the collectors or it was their server or something.
In short, they sure aren’t Fort Knox. Even when they aren’t intentionally trying to circumvent user privacy, it gets out.
You need to read more carefully. There wasn't any leak of Google data on public servers, neither last month or "regularly". There's enough questionable true stuff out there without you being dishonest with made-up stuff. LOL.... Try harder, read more.
You're just like the guys who read about some Apple developer stealing user data and drop by here to claim it's all Apple's evil doing. You just substitute Google.
Google Maps VS Apple Maps? Seriously!? What a joke. I dislike google, but gotta say, they go unmatched, unchallenged here. No contest, Google is far superior. Apple is badly behind, embarrassing, losing, deplorable, Sad, on Maps, Siri, HomePod, which is a total failure. Apple has also steadily been deteriorating its Laptops.. macbookPro, what a hobbled pieced together piece of sad junk. As recent as the 2019 MacBookPro shipped with extended warranty repair keyboard program out of the box. Sad.
Comments
In short, they sure aren’t Fort Knox. Even when they aren’t intentionally trying to circumvent user privacy, it gets out.
Love the imperial "we" btw.
You're just like the guys who read about some Apple developer stealing user data and drop by here to claim it's all Apple's evil doing. You just substitute Google.