Idle Android Devices Send Data to Google Nearly 10 Times More Often Than iOS Devices do to Apple, Research Finds

[Zxxv]

I’m afraid so...that Apple Pay transaction is being tracked by the retailer and the card provider who you are, where you are, and what you were paying for. Cash, harder, but every time you get the cash from the ATM, who, where when and how much....

Retailer only sees the token issued by the Apple Pay device, so unless they have a way to tie this to you they dont know who you are. Its not like a credit card being linked to your name and them cross compiling a data base where they know your name is tied to that card.

Or maybe im missing something?

 

[ani4ani]

Retailer only sees the token issued by the Apple Pay device, so unless they have a way to tie this to you they dont know who you are. Its not like a credit card being linked to your name and them cross compiling a data base where they know your name is tied to that card.

Or maybe im missing something?

It’s all simpler than that in my view ..you ultimately get a credit card bill, which obviously is linked to the transaction and the retailer is providing a warranty which again, has to be linked to the transaction. I am not going to pretend to know what is being tracked, but at the end of the day, when, where, who and what and how much as a minimum must be collected for both the card provider and retailer to achieve their minimum obligations in the transaction? Maybe I’m missing something?

 

[Dragonlord_66]

I will admit, at this moment in time I'm like that.

So I drive to the beach, and my phone (google) knows I'm at the beach as I have location tracking turned on, and can then give me weather, travel, and info about and for my location.
I think that's great and really useful.
And no I don't really care either.
If it was a group of thieves knowing I was at the beach or people trying to mug me, then sure, I'd not want them to know.
But some corp many thousands of miles away, knowing it, and giving me useful stuff based upon my location then, I find it more positive than negative.
This is the reason Apple will never be as useful.
It would be the same in real life with real people.
If you keep where you are, and where you are going secret from everyone, then they can never give you any help.

Better get used to it, as location tracking will simply be a form of life in the future.

they give you these useful notifications so you keep the notifications on but under the radar they sell that data to advertisers and that is what pisses me off.
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Android phones should be cheaper because the software that runs on it, Android, is essentially free. Samsung and other manufacturers should charge just for the hardware, if the hardware price is the same as an iPhone, then iPhone is far cheaper because it includes both, hardware and software.

Premium Android phones should then be considered rip off, because they are overcharging for the hardware when the software is essentially free. So I am saying Samsung S9 and the likes are a rip off because the software side of the cost is paid by mining user data and selling it off to advertisers.

if the product is free, YOU are the product....