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Anyone know what data iOS send to Apple?
https://www.apple.com/privacy/
TL;DR: we collect the shit out of you and share it with third parties as we see fit. If you disagree you will get a crippled experience
Google's is similarly excessive https://i.imgur.com/fWvV7R4.png Though I get the feeling google's approach of trying to desensitize me (emailing me about how great I am for traveling to mcdonalds like a slob, and gamifying my use of google maps, for example) instead of shamefully hiding it, is a fair bit worse
To get rid of it you have to uninstall the tracking app via adb: (no root access needed)
$ adb start-server
$ adb shell
> pm uninstall -k --user 0 net.oneplus.odm
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> I feel I can trust Google with my data more than some other android manufacturer or reseller. Sure they'll serve me more adverts, but it's to some ends at least. I'm not sure I understand this logic. Can you explain your reasoning here? What makes Google different? Is it just about data security (e.g. you don't care what anyone does with your data as long as they don't leak it publicly)?
Google is also a US company, which means you at least have a different set of intelligence agencies after you. Given those two options, I think I’d prefer to give my data to the NSA, not the Chinese government.
> ping open.oneplus.net PING hadoop-1219418324.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com Your phone usage data going straight into OnePlus' Hadoop cluster?
Holy moly O_o. Those kind of stories are keeping me back from buying any Android devices in nearest future. Somebody might say that I can flash it with clean Android ROM but that's great for people who have too much time :-)
What other options do you have if you want a smartphone? I severely doubt that other devices (most notably Apple) are any better. I think that if you don't want this to happen you have to buy a dumbphone, which may or may not be an option for some people.
If this data collection is not declared in the user-agreement, then is it illegal?
Of course not. One of the reasons why this kind of industry popped out of no where is because these kinds of things are not regulated. If they were, targeted ads would be a much harder problem.
I have absolutely no doubt there is some data centre in Shenzhen full of my Huawei phone metrics! I think this is the biggest issue with android phones, they are full of potential data leakages like this. Privacy is definitely a concern and a pull factor to getting an iPhone again. There is a lot to be said for a company that is focused on hardware and not on serving content to that device. Then again it's also a rea…
I have absolutely no doubt there is some data centre in Shenzhen full of my Huawei phone metrics! I think this is the biggest issue with android phones, they are full of potential data leakages like this. Privacy is definitely a concern and a pull factor to getting an iPhone again. There is a lot to be said for a company that is focused on hardware and not on serving content to that device. Then again it's also a rea…
This makes me wonder: why can we have a top of the line desktop PC which is totally libre, but not a smartphone? What has gone wrong?
Anyone know what data iOS send to Apple?
Apple gives you an option for telemetry on first boot. No idea how much that option turns off. Not sure if the phone sends anything to Apple with that option and not using Apple services (that’s pretty hard because of the App Store; if you really care about iPhone privacy you’d want to download all your apps once then never touch the store again).