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

People is stupid.
Nothing less.
I’ve passed my last 5 years under police investigation and know how they works about your privacy data.
People simple don’t understand the world around them, they are obsessed with them opinions about nothing (really, I can’t believe I could read, in 2022, someone who talks about CCP as the maccartism will be here today: grow up, communist chinese party is one of most capitalism product) and simply doesn’t understand the gadget in them pocket, wrist, ear.
“Idiocracy” film in real world.
 
Alfieg said:
It's relatively close and somewhat meaningless without the overlay of primary device within the data sample. If there are more Android users for example, they are more likely to trust Google.
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This. There are more Android users out there, and Amazon Echo devices are wildly popular. It makes sense that people that have these products in their home already probably would say they trust them, because it's better than the alternative of admitting they're being spied on and having their data sold to marketing. Ignorance is bliss.
 
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dannys1 said:
To be fair, she decided to block AWS too which is a bit daft.
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AWS = Amazon though. Of course you and I know that today Amazon isn't doing anything nefarious when I got to AirBNB but they very well could do all kinds of wretched stuff to the data they're passing on to their client's nodes.
 
While Apple might not be particularly happy with the results of this poll given how much effort they have made on burnishing their privacy credentials, the take of this article that users trust Google more than Apple is decidedly odd. Google is 7 % worse than Apple on the distrust metric. That's a lot. Apple has a lot of people with no opinion which would include many respondents who don't use Apple and those who don't think that what Apple does bears on their privacy. Everyone uses Google. I don't know what percentage of the surveyed people use Apple products or services but it's certainly much lower than for Google.
 
bookofxero said:
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!
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Intrusive af. Apple failed miserably. Just accept it, at least amazon, google and Facebook don’t go around praising privacy as human right. It happened the same with the prism program, Apple denied it and then it was leaked they were part of it.

At the end they are the same and their promises are just cheap marketing for the masses.
 
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All of you saying the people that voted are stupid, but in fact it is you. The people that voted have the right approach.

When it comes to Apple, Google, Microsoft and Amazon they have the same levels of distrust in each. No company can be fully trusted. Some are to be trusted less, Facebook.

The people who are the stupid ones are those who place significant trust in any one company like Apple.
 
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Apple is probably worse among these imo. Don’t use Facebook. The only ads and spam I see are from apple.
 
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V.K. said:
I don't know what percentage of the surveyed people use Apple products or services but it's certainly much lower than for Google.
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Makes no difference. I doubt any of those 1,058 people can really say they use or know enough about every company on the list in sufficient detail and therefore fully understand their claims on personal information and data.

It is all about perception. I know plenty of people that shout loud about how great Apple is on privacy. But I also know plenty who do not use Apple and are doubtful about the claims Apple make and suspect they probably are as bad as any other company out there. Again, perception.

Treat every company with the same distrust when it comes to your data.
 
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This article says so much about how dumb people are that answer these questions.

Facebook/Meta owns multiple sites listed. Google/Alphabet also owns more than one. How do you trust multiple sites for the same company differently?! That's nuts. And then as others have pointed out.. an owner of a company on the survey list owns the company that took the survey, so oy vey.

Just overall - oy vey. Everyone is going to sell your data - its just selling different data to different people.
 
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Not sure why anyone would really trust any of them but they sure make things more convenient. Most of the time.
 
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This article says so much about how dumb people are that answer these questions.

Facebook/Meta owns multiple sites listed. Google/Alphabet also owns more than one. How do you trust multiple sites for the same company differently?! That's nuts. And then as others have pointed out.. an owner of a company on the survey list owns the company that took the survey, so oy vey.

Just overall - oy vey. Everyone is going to sell your data - its just selling different data to different people.
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So many posters here believe that people are dumb but MR members are smart. That's just dumb for MR does not discriminate against anybody.
 
Well apple vs goigle ( atleast for goigles free services) I trust apple more (well duh I'm their coustumer and not their product ( like with goigles free services)j with amazon well obviously I exepect amazon to data mine the hell of whatever I do on amazon.com ( driving sales and whatnot) do they datamine the hell out of evrything on aws, probably not gas that would probably violate a lot of contracts with a lot if big coolaratr
es with sizable legal departmentrs). And here we have the trubbke withthise surways, ir at keast the on graphic summary thet gets serculated somewhat widely. therae megacoros have so anu buisnesses in so many sagments that trysryng mithership A ir B realy telks you very little about what gapoens ti data
 
adamjackson said:
AWS = Amazon though. Of course you and I know that today Amazon isn't doing anything nefarious when I got to AirBNB but they very well could do all kinds of wretched stuff to the data they're passing on to their client's nodes.
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I know it's run by Amazon but if they were doing anything with their servers they wouldn't have any clients. It's just a bit much to say you're going to cut Amazon out of your life and they also cut off half of the web that runs on their servers.
 
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sw1tcher said:
?‍♂️ This isn't the Washington Post's opinion. This is the opinion of people who took a poll.
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However, if the Washington Post creates a survey in a VERY specific way, they can get the results they want. For example, if you use a very small sample size, allow a HUGE percentage in “No comment” to be considered “OK” and not mean that you need to get a larger sample size, etc. etc. I’m not saying that’s what’s happened here but WHO is performing the poll is always important.
 
adamjackson said:
It's good to see it visualized this way. The No opinion category is what put Apple behind Amazon which means not enough people know how massively intrusive Amazon is and how massively privacy conscious Apple is by comparison.

A few journalists have blocked traffic to Amazon's IP block on their computer and found the internet is basically not usable. This isn't a privacy violation in itself but it shows how much control Amazon has on the global internet.

EDIT: here's an article back in 2019 - https://gizmodo.com/i-tried-to-block-amazon-from-my-life-it-was-impossible-1830565336
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'tried' it myself. blocking certain DNS requests using adguard (similar to pi hole). always trying what more i can block without any evident effects. that wasn't the case for blocking AWS. so many big companies use it, even small local eshops in EU use them to store images for example. it's impossible to block amazon dns requests.
 
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aplnub said:
I don't trust any of them. Apple has ruined their privacy high ground. At least FB and Amazon didn't parade around holier then though about it.
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Exactly! I used to trust Apple, but now I don't trust them at all and them still saying they're privacy oriented just makes me more mad at them.

ATT is annoying the way it comes up on every app install as well. It should be a settable default. (If it is, enlighten me, I really want that!)
 
contacos said:
I am not surprised. Most people probably only remember the iCloud Photo celebrity „leaks“ from a few years ago or the recent Apple **** storm that even made it to Fox „News“. People do not care how their data is used or handled, unless it is leaked on the internet in a breaking news data breach
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So what you're saying is propaganda works...
 
LivingMyBeachLife said:
Your photos are already scanned. Think about it, go to the photos app and type a name of some your contacts. The photos apps should show you photos with those people. Type tree, dog, cat, pet, food etc. etc. etc.. The photos apps shows pictures of whatever you are searching for. This is not new to iOS 15. This feature has been enabled for a few versions of iOS. I get your point about CSAM but that's not what you've stated in your posts. And now with iOS 15, type in a word that's on a document in the search field, and if it's in a photo it will show in your results. Photos are already scanned.
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"The photos apps shows pictures of whatever you are searching for."

Well it tries to and sometimes actually gets it right. Google photos on the other hand, is scary good at this.
 
hagar said:
Don’t people realise Siri is that bad because of privacy? It doesn’t have the data available in the same way as Google Assistant and Alexa. That’s the price you pay for privacy.
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Lol....do you really believe that? Is Privacy the reason that iCloud web apps and iCloud email suck so bad? I think it just about priorities.

Apple has the data on how much voice assistants are used....hardly at all. Think about your smartphone usage, how many times do you use voice, on any platform. I see more people having private conversations in public on their smartphone with airpods than I do using voice assistants.
 
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