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[return to "Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devices than Apple from iOS"]
1. mankyd+P2[view] [source] 2021-03-30 19:45:27
>>gorman+(OP)
Not mentioned in the headline: When the user is _not_ logged in, iOS collects "location" whereas Android does not.

I am actually a little surprised that iOS would gather this information. What use would it serve?

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2. titzer+on[view] [source] 2021-03-30 21:21:52
>>mankyd+P2
> When the user is _not_ logged in, iOS collects "location" whereas Android does not.

This may be only technically true. It's not Android, it's Google Play Services, which collects "anonymized", high-accuracy[1] location data constantly.

[1] Yeah, that's actually a contradiction-in-terms. There is no such thing as anonymized, high-accuracy location data.

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