Glad to see one company taking the stand for privacy

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[eric]

Well Google wants to protect it from groups other than Google, because they want to acquire the data so they can sell it. Whereas Apple doesn't do that.

And Apple has had the privacy protections in place longer than Google has.

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[eric]

What terrible history are you talking about? And customer data =/= as privacy and security. They are two different things. A company can be very secure with data and still sell it to third parties, like many do. The diamond analogy makes 0 sense because Apple is involved in privacy and customer data security, like Google. Ford isn't involved in diamonds. No car manufacturer is (excluding some sort of diamond covered Ferrari)

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The reason companies collect your data is so they can stratify you into categories that they can market to. Apple doesn't need to do this because Apple users fall only into one category, pompous asses.

[eric]

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Dude it's still not a good analogy at all.

And it's not just selling data, it's keeping third parties from obtaining that data and being serious about it. Idk what the problem that you're having with this is. They offer services, sometimes not as good, like email, and then instead of taking the data and selling it, they don't. They encrypt everything they can and throw the keys away because f**k the U.S. Government. I'm not saying Google doesn't try or succeed in doing this, but their company, as you mentioned, is predicated upon obtaining that data and selling it. Apple doesn't have to because they make hardware. They could collect a shitload of data and sell it to third parties (from email or iTunes for example) but asfaik they don't. That's pretty cool to me.