I'm in 'Photos'. I type the name of my daughter, (who is stored in my contacts).
I do not see the picture(s) I took.
It's no more complex than that.
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More Users Trust Amazon and Google to Handle Their Personal User Data Than Apple, Survey Suggests
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I do not see the picture(s) I took.
It's no more complex than that.
So you think Bezos, who still has a huge fraction of his wealth in Amazon, has no interest or influence in what the WaPo says or doesn't say about Amazon?
I don’t trust any of them with my data, there’s just unfortunately no real choice if you want to use the internet and email.
They all do something evil from Apple’s on device scanning to Google doing pretty much everything. I don’t know what data I give Amazon besides my purchase history and location, but I’m sure they’re selling that to third parties.
They all do something evil from Apple’s on device scanning to Google doing pretty much everything. I don’t know what data I give Amazon besides my purchase history and location, but I’m sure they’re selling that to third parties.
Clearly these people have never heard anything about Amazon & Google user data policies...
I'd understand (although not support) some people not caring about their data being havested...
But trusting Amazon and Google MORE than Apple (which I'm sure still gathers quite the data) is idiotic...
I'd understand (although not support) some people not caring about their data being havested...
But trusting Amazon and Google MORE than Apple (which I'm sure still gathers quite the data) is idiotic...
?♂️ This isn't the Washington Post's opinion. This is the opinion of people who took a poll.
I also typed the name of your daughter and didn’t get any results. Together we proved that the iPhone doesn’t scan photos. /s
It’s just one poll, with 16% saying they have no opinion of Apple. Seems like of the 1000 polled you had a lot of people not familiar with Apple’s policy against personal user data. Certainly not something to say Amazon and Google did better without considering that. It could be due that a lot of internet users are very familiar with Google and Amazon compared to Apple, but if you look at cookie, data cache, tracking, Amazon and Google both are way worse tracking you all the time, just people polled trust that aspect lol. 
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You know I’m wondering, it’s not just why they (‘These consumers’) choose to believe that Google should be trusted more- over Apple, but do they understand Apples stance on privacy versus Google. It’s not about just picking one or the other of what they think they know, but do they fully understand the context of why they’re choosing Google is a completely different argument and I challenge if they understand how Apple prioritizes security over the competition.
1000 people in a survey isn’t enough to go draw conclusive results
Many people don’t understand what each company does with the data they collect as it’s not readily available
Bottom Line: if you carry a cell phone you give up your privacy
If you go on the Internet you give up your privacy
Many people don’t understand what each company does with the data they collect as it’s not readily available
Bottom Line: if you carry a cell phone you give up your privacy
If you go on the Internet you give up your privacy
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Not everyone is a fool to trust and believe a corporation has their best interest at heart. Get Real.
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Apple, while there are (were?) some issues, are the ONLY ones I actually trust, mostly.
I trust Apple more than any of them, and I don't really trust Apple.
On the off chance that you're not being sarcastic, that's not how statistics works...Error margin +/- 4. Hmmmm
Apple's overall net positive score was 44%, lagging behind Google's 48% and Amazon's 53%.
44 + 4 is 49
48 + 1 is 49
53 - 4 is 49
So, given the margin of error, statistically identical.
Apple was the dumb here, praising an algorithm to basically spy you in your device with the poor children excuse.
And not just goodle - that has been a normal part of file transfers for ages (hash checks), and that Cloudflare allows all their customers to do, etc.
Except that wasn't what it did at all and Cloudflare has been doing it and offering the functionality to all customers for years. The difference is that the hash was checked locally instead of on their servers... and only if you enabled iCloud Photos (which would have put the photos on their servers) - the horror!
