What Apple Does and Doesn't Know About You

Daniel_Stuckey writes "Tucked inside Apple's first-ever transparency report, published yesterday, was a not-so-subtle dig at the tech giant's competitors. 'Our business does not depend on collecting personal data,' Apple wrote. 'We have no interest in amassing personal information about our customers.' It's no secret that for social web companies like Google or Facebook, collecting, storing, and analyzing data about every aspect of your life translates into cold, hard cash—the more sensitive and personal, the better. But in the emerging post-NSA new world order, the unwritten privacy-for-cool services agreement that drives the internet ecosystem is making netizens increasingly uneasy."

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Re: It's true.

[Anonymous Coward]

We supposedly know extend to which their rich is there. At least have ability and others can do it for you.
Example: I have android phone. I have custom CHROOT on it. I know where my internet traffic is going to and from.(tcpdump under debian). I can have control over ALL trafic on Linux kernel level.
Guess what, I can't do this on Apple phones. Apple has been caught red handed with scandal of colelcting your geo location data.
BOOM HEADSHOT!

So,,, apple vs google? google any day of week, thank you!