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Apple's Privacy Policies Are Keeping Data Scientists Away
An anonymous reader writes: The Cupertino-based global device giant is falling behind in the race to create 'predictive' services for smartphones because its privacy policies are too protective of the end-user. Data retention policies on user-centric information gathered into its Siri 'personal assistant' product is a reasonably generous six months, whilst information retained from the user's exploration of Apple Maps expires after only 15 minutes. As a consequence Apple's smartphones attempt to crunch a great deal of user-data locally rather than in the cloud.
Apparently protecting information is taboo, go figure.
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Does this imply Android users are being tracked heavily (like Win10) by these so-called data scientists?
This, plus they are a hardware company and don't trade in data. Data scientists aside, it's also tough as a developer trying to get any useful stats on the apps you sell on the app store. But again, Apple is a hardware company and doesn't really worry too much about that either,
But... but... how are companies going to monetize paradigm synergies in your data, if they don't have your data?
Apple is the most profitable company in the history of the world, and they make nearly all their money by selling hardware. They don't need to monetize data, and they have much more to lose than to gain by another NSA tracking scandal. The data can't be hacked or subpoenaed if it is never collected.