Are iPhones Better for Privacy? Comparative Study of iOS and Android Apps
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#2I hope fanboys don't start defending Apple / Google for their privacy measures etc. (esp. Apple)
Both platforms are notorious (Apple more so due to its closed nature imo) and defending any is just weird.
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#3I don’t think a smart phone in your pocket all day with a GPS and microphone that you use as a central hub for all your communications, notes, research and appointments and so forth, can really be considered for its privacy - and it appears thru researching apps on these smartphones the authors have the same conclusion.
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#4I hope fanboys don't start defending Apple / Google for their privacy measures etc. (esp. Apple) Both platforms are notorious (Apple more so due to its closed nature imo) and defending any is just weird.
Are we allowed to have an opinion about which company is better for our privacy?
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#5Better is useless, I need good.
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#6I don’t think a smart phone in your pocket all day with a GPS and microphone that you use as a central hub for all your communications, notes, research and appointments and so forth, can really be considered for its privacy - and it appears thru researching apps on these smartphones the authors have the same conclusion.
Of course they can, the paper just did.
Security (which privacy is one subset of) is not binary. Just because it can never be perfect does not mean that it's all equal.
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#7I hope fanboys don't start defending Apple / Google for their privacy measures etc. (esp. Apple) Both platforms are notorious (Apple more so due to its closed nature imo) and defending any is just weird.
Are we allowed to have an opinion about which company is better for our privacy?
If both are bad, does it matter which is less bad?
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#8>In this paper, we present a study of 24k Android and iOS apps from 2020 along several dimensions relating to user privacy.
>We find that third-party tracking and the sharing of unique user identifiers was widespread in apps from both ecosystems, even in apps aimed at children. In the children's category, iOS apps used much fewer advertising-related tracking than their Android counterparts, but could more often access children's location (by a factor of 7).
>Overall, we find that neither platform is clearly better than the other for privacy across the dimensions we studied.
Well, here's a novel idea: don't get children their own smartphones, uninstall/disable all apps bar the essentials, and keep your own usage to the bare minimum.
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#9I hope fanboys don't start defending Apple / Google for their privacy measures etc. (esp. Apple) Both platforms are notorious (Apple more so due to its closed nature imo) and defending any is just weird.
Saying that iPhones are secure and private is wishful thinking that benefits nobody but Apple shareholders.
There are no doubt some dead journalists and activists that would still be alive today if iPhones truly were secure and/or private.
Re: Are iPhones Better for Privacy? Comparative Study of iOS and Android Apps
#10I hope fanboys don't start defending Apple / Google for their privacy measures etc. (esp. Apple) Both platforms are notorious (Apple more so due to its closed nature imo) and defending any is just weird.
Are we allowed to have an opinion about which company is better for our privacy?
You're welcome to say whatever you want, but if you genuinely believe that the NSA gives preferential treatment to anyone from FAANG you're living a fever dream.