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Three quarters of Android apps track users with third party tools

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Re: Three quarters of Android apps track users with third party tools

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Post by paulcole »

KozmoNau7 wrote: post #98
paulcole wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>You are not the customer, you are the product being traded. Yes and this is fine with me. I don't see why this is such an abhorrent concept. I want something (content) without paying (money) for it. Instead I pay with access to my data and behavior.

And you're perfectly fine with not being able to negotiate the price? You're a base commodity, traded between two entities that you have very little actual information about, and you have no way of influencing the price for which your data is sold, or where it goes. To me, that is outrageously dystopian.

> And you're perfectly fine with not being able to negotiate the price?

Yes. They have content I want that I'm not willing to give up. I have no leverage in this situation.

Re: Three quarters of Android apps track users with third party tools

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Post by jtmcmc »

lightswitch05 wrote: post #89
jtmcmc wrote: post #71

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many of those third parties do not own the data - the data is owned by whoever's account (will obviously vary).

That is like saying Facebook does not own the content uploaded to it. These analytic tools are the ones doing the collection, at the end of the day it is their data that they allow you to use.

no it's entirely unlike that. From the Amplitude MSA

https://amplitude.com/msa/

All Customer Data is, or shall be, and shall remain the property of Customer. Customer Data shall not be used by Amplitude or its agents other than in connection with providing the Service or support under the terms of the applicable Order Form and this Agreement. Customer hereby grants Amplitude a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, collect, transfer and process, the Customer Data for the sole purpose of Amplitude providing the Service and support to Customer under the terms of the applicable Order Form and this Agreement. In addition, Customer shall own all right, title and interest to the Results obtained by Customer through Customer’s use of the Service. For purposes of this Agreement, “Results” shall mean the data based on Customer Data resulting from Customer’s use of the Service.

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