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>>gorman+(OP)
"20X more telemetry", in terms of data usage, is a pretty meaningless statistic on its own (unless it's large enough to affect your mobile data cap or something).

For instance, I would consider it a much bigger privacy violation for my phone to transmit my exact location every hour than my current CPU usage every 10 seconds.

>>terafl+U5
Which Apple is apparently doing - they send location, local IP, and nearby wifi mac addresses even when you're not logged in. Similarly Apple is collecting more data types than Google according to the research paper.

>>kllrno+2c
Please provide evidence of this because Apple's official documentation says otherwise:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203033

They do send nearly WiFi hotspots for crowd sourcing purposes but it is never in conjunction with your local IP address (which is an identifying piece of information).

>>threes+pn
Nearby WiFi spots can be easily used to track device location. Here is a neat little project that does exactly that for IOT tracking [1].

[1] https://github.com/dmsl/anyplace

>>Partia+SI
Nearby wifi hotspot location is the base for aGPS. Without it it would be slower and eat up more battery.