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More Users Trust Amazon and Google to Handle Their Personal User Data Than Apple, Survey Suggests
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So the newspaper owned by a holding company established by Jeff Bezos says people trust Amazon... who'd have thought.
Apple is a for-profit company and their lacklustre hardware sales (relative to the past, and the current competition) will incentivise them to pivot to ever-more intrusive services.
Self-hosting everything apart from email is an option for privacy-minded individuals.
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This is just sad. Amazon and google really? They are all over your data 😂
Apple turned off a lot of users with the photo scanning crap
The same crowd who thinks moving a window around their computer themself by accident is them being “hacked.”
I think the reality is, none of us know what these big companies are doing, and we have no control over it anyway. It's a guessing game. All you need is one public data breach or news of one of the companies misusing data and all this shifts. I honestly feel like it's not worth worrying about it anymore. I always have had and still have accounts with Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, you name it. They probably know more about me than I do. Heck, I thought at one point that at least my SS number would be safe but thanks to Equifax I now know better as well.
There’s plenty to criticize Apple about, but privacy - especially when compared to Google, Microsoft and Amazon ain’t it.
This statement, alone, answers why the results came out the way they did.
One guess who the owner is of The Washington Post.
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Those are just meaningless uninformed opinions. How can someone trust google and Amazon is beyond my understanding.
There’s a difference between a data breach and selling your data to advertisers.
what a shocker - who owns the Washington Post? hmm, let me think, maybe the founder and former CEO of a small company named Amazon???
Interesting slant in the MR headline...it's not that more users trust Amazon and Google with their data, its just that more people have "no opinion" on Apple than the others. Apple actually has the lowest "distrust" percentage of any company in the survey.
Yeah, if only they knew google has already been doing that for years. As well as scanning all gmail and logging all the Wi-Fi passwords… among other things.
According to an independent survey 0.01% of internet users trust the Washington Post.
This survey seems to have a few issues, but it does reveal something interesting.
If they only had five levels to choose from and more than five companies to rate than they would be forced to assign different values to differentiate perspectives even if the difference between those companies were small. How do represent differences in survey responses that aren’t normally distributed? So, say you trust Google just a little more than Facebook but you trust Tik Tok a lot more than Google you rank them Facebook 1, Google 2, TikTok 3. It appears to be equally distributed but in reality it was not.
The more revealing thing is some of those companies have different trust values but are the same company. They Google and YouTube should have the same results. Likewise Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram should all be the same. The fact that they are not suggests users (not customers, users) don’t realize or recognize them as the same company.
If they only had five levels to choose from and more than five companies to rate than they would be forced to assign different values to differentiate perspectives even if the difference between those companies were small. How do represent differences in survey responses that aren’t normally distributed? So, say you trust Google just a little more than Facebook but you trust Tik Tok a lot more than Google you rank them Facebook 1, Google 2, TikTok 3. It appears to be equally distributed but in reality it was not.
The more revealing thing is some of those companies have different trust values but are the same company. They Google and YouTube should have the same results. Likewise Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram should all be the same. The fact that they are not suggests users (not customers, users) don’t realize or recognize them as the same company.
I trust Apple more than others but ultimately no one should trust any of these companies. Give them all as little of your info as possible, even Apple.
Like when AWS went down for a few hours the other week and broke a LOT of companies temporarily
lol, I trust none of them. I trust my credit card provider will take care of security breaches after the fact. As for social media. I post very little info about myself that would easily reveal me. You'd have to phish it hard.
Well don't forget the first decade of Google's "Do no evil" mantra. How did that turn out? ?
Distinction without a difference.
While true for visitors of this site, I'm willing to bet those who were surveyed had no clue that was even "a thing". I give you the results of the survey for my proof. ?