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More Users Trust Amazon and Google to Handle Their Personal User Data Than Apple, Survey Suggests

michi098 said:
All you need is one public data breach or news of one of the companies misusing data and all this shifts.
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Aye. This is why more people trust Google and Amazon. They're doing a good job of keeping hackers from accessing our data.

A lot of people are still stinging from the iCloud breach a few years back.
michi098 said:
I honestly feel like it's not worth worrying about it anymore.
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Aye. I have stopped caring a few decades back. 30 years with Amazon and my data is still secured on Amazon's servers. I can't say the same for my data on T-Mobile's servers.?
MacDaddyPanda said:
As for social media. I post very little info about myself that would easily reveal me. You'd have to phish it hard.
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So you post true facts about yourself on social media???? Never tell the truth when a lie will do, because the truth is usually an excuse for lack of imagination.???
 
Okasian said:
Personally identifiable data? I think not.

Anonymous aggregated data points pooled into topics, interests etc – for targeted advertising? Yes.
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Many people do not get this. They do not hand over your identifiable data. If you want an add that targets and age group, race group, gender group, interest group in a specific zip code, about a specific target, like youth soccer equipment for example...they can deliver. I bet the amount of humans that can actually access the data is very, very, very limited.

Part of this is to avoid legal problems but the real reason is that sheer amount of data they suck in has to be handled by AI and super computers because it would require an army of people to sort it.

I am not apologizing for any of them. I think there needs to be some series government regulation around this, and options to fully opt out and possibly be paid for your data. This would lead to free software/services not being free...which I have no problem with.

Lastly I think the DANGER from likes of Google, Facebook and others is the power they wield over free speech and determining what you see based on their bias. They control what information people see and that is dangerous.
 
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Mousse said:
Aye. This is why more people trust Google and Amazon. They're doing a good job of keeping hackers from accessing our data.

A lot of people are still stinging from the iCloud breach a few years back.

Aye. I have stopped caring a few decades back. 30 years with Amazon and my data is still secured on Amazon's servers. I can't say the same for my data on T-Mobile's servers.?

So you post true facts about yourself on social media???? Never tell the truth when a lie will do, because the truth is usually an excuse for lack of imagination.???
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The truth that I drive a Corolla in a Toyota Group? Pretty sure lying about that would not be very useful, lol. Or lying about the specs of my computers in a computer foroum. Again that would not be very helpful, lol.
 
I don't trust any of them, they're more or less the same, no matter what marketing strategy for privacy they present. On the backend, no one really knows what they do (well for most of them we know).
 
I trust Apple more than any of them but I have reservations. I don't think there is any company that you can fully feel secure.
 
PTLove said:
Google does not sell your data. This myth needs to die. They sell advertisement targeted toward demographic buckets, and they put you in a bucket, but they never sell the data they have on you.

Facebook does. Facebook sucks.
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You're right - one should just say "They make most of their money off your data" to be more precise.
 
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Mousse said:
Aye. This is why more people trust Google and Amazon. They're doing a good job of keeping hackers from accessing our data.
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Not really. https://firewalltimes.com/google-data-breach-timeline/ https://firewalltimes.com/amazon-da... login credentials or credit card information.
Mousse said:
A lot of people are still stinging from the iCloud breach a few years back.
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I don't buy that but there really isn't any way of proving or disproving this.
Mousse said:
Aye. I have stopped caring a few decades back. 30 years with Amazon and my data is still secured on Amazon's servers. I can't say the same for my data on T-Mobile's servers.?

So you post true facts about yourself on social media???? Never tell the truth when a lie will do, because the truth is usually an excuse for lack of imagination.???
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TBH, I do not care one bit. Since I started using a good ad blocker, I see no ads, not even on youtube.
If a site requires me to turn the ad blocker off, I just go elsewhere.
I do have a gmail account, to use when I need a burnable account. Absolutely no account on anything Meta, never had, never will have.
For serious (private)stuff I have my own cloud storage, my own mail server, my own web server. I have no interest in the ”free” offerings of huge companies.
 
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I won't talk politics on a mac forum - but I do think it's correct to have healthy skepticism about a survey where Amazon looks the best, while both the paper and the company are controlled by Bezos. I'd have used polling from a completely independent source.

Next thing you know, they'll show a survey where people think Blue Origin is the premier space company :)
 
If you are entering data on this forum, good chance AWS touched your data. The consumers reality, using Amazon for a longtime, never had my data compromised on AWS therefore, I trust them.
 
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.


they scanned on your device?
 
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FYI - speaking of privacy... A web site I visit doesn't seem too concerned about my privacy and contacts 830 domains outside of their own.
 
Facebook, instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, Microsoft, Google, YouTube, not at all. Amazon, not much, Apple, a good amount.
 
Perhaps the increasing invasive on-device scanning, secret deals with governments, etc. are perceived as hypocrisy and even more dangerous than companies that are known for collecting user data.
 
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TheMacDaddy1 said:
The reason they talk about it so much is that they sell actual products and services tied to those products and that is how they get their revenue. They want your data just as much as Google or Facebook does. The difference is they do not want to sell it in the form of ads but use it to sell you more of their products. Google and Facebook largely do not have product
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this is exactly 100% the case.
a lot of people don't seem to realise this, either due to being mis-informed or just plain blinkered with bias.
 
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