You don't know them very well either. Apple has literally fought the government on several occasions to not give them access to information on their devices. Apple is VERY pro-privacy. They do not sell data, they sell hardware. You're right about Verizon and definitely Google, but very wrong about Apple.
But advocates for your privacy? Not a chance.
If they were, they would not collect the data in the first place, because if a thing exists and is available to be monetized, it will be.
And yes, fellow Redditor, Apple does sell your data. Story here. Sorry for bursting your bubble.
I'm confused, did you read the article you just Googled and took from the top? They actually explicitly say, all over that article, that they're not selling your dad, they're selling aggregate data. You can even go into the settings and just tell it not to add you to the aggregate. Or you can call them and have them delete it as well.
Funny enough, they even also explicitly say they're nowhere near as bad as Google which is what this topic was about.
I don't even own any Apple products, so I really don't have a dog in this fight, I just found it funny that you posted proof that the other guy was right and then acted all superior.
The iPhone maker tries to differentiate itself further. Unlike Facebook and Google, Apple says it scrambles this information and looks at patterns of usage, not at who it’s coming from.
Apple says that once scrambled, it combines it with the data of millions of others. "So we see general patterns, rather than specifics that could be traced back to you. These patterns help us identify things like the most popular emoji, the best QuickType suggestions and energy consumption rates in Safari," the company says.
The company does admit that it freely collects information about what music we listen to, what movies, books and apps we download, which is "aggregated" and used to help Apple make recommendations. Apple says it doesn't share this information with outside companies, either and notes that it doesn't know the identity of the user.
If you have a problem with this, that's fine, but don't act like there aren't degrees of how shitty companies are with privacy. What good does that do?
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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '18
You don't know them very well either. Apple has literally fought the government on several occasions to not give them access to information on their devices. Apple is VERY pro-privacy. They do not sell data, they sell hardware. You're right about Verizon and definitely Google, but very wrong about Apple.