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Google Gets 20 Times More Data From Android Devices Than Apple Gets From iOS
- Arstechnica, Thursday, April 1, 2021 8:33 AM
Trinity College Researcher Douglas Leith told Ars Technica that Android and iOS transmit telemetry data to their motherships even when a user hasn’t logged in or has explicitly configured privacy settings to opt out. Both operating systems send data to Apple and Google when a user does simple things like insert a SIM card or browse the handset settings screen. Each device connects to its back-end server on average every 4.5 minutes.
