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More Users Trust Amazon and Google to Handle Their Personal User Data Than Apple, Survey Suggests
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Yes, they are scanned, but for your benefit, not to turn you into the cops like the CSAM scanner. Huge difference, so much so, that it really doesn't apply.
I’m baffled to see a report saying a poll of meagre 1000 people voting means anything. If the number is 100k then I at least can Hope the demographic gets covered decently well. Heck, medical research of COVID variant needs to have 57k cases analysed according to NYTimes!
Guys, do a better job and interview more than just 1000 people. This “report” provides little to no value.
Guys, do a better job and interview more than just 1000 people. This “report” provides little to no value.
I am having an argument with someone who’s corporate policy is to use WhatsApp and not trust iMessage. ?
'Where's the cow?' I got these amazing beans for it!
'People' also click on spam, and answer spam calls too. Oh, and give out their passwords, SSN's, pin codes: 'They said it was 'tech support'. Why would they lie?'
EDIT: That last one happened to my mom. She was distraught. Older and suffering from pre-dementia, I had to explain to her why people would want to get her information. She broke down sobbing, and swore that she would never do it again, and actually was strafed and turned over her computer to me to deal with it. Yes, in her mond, why would someone do that to another human being. It makes me sick that so many prey on the aged because they are like children, innocent, trusting, gullible. People doing that should spend a lot of time in prison, IMO...
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They scan everything. And not just for hashes. They scan content to use it for marketing. Remember, to google, you are more the product than the customer to them.
And they supply a service for the data. Its anonymous. Don’t use Google if you don’t want to. They offer a great service. Works well. Rarely issues.
Notice how you ignored the question. Who else scans on device?
That happens all the time. There generally is a correlation from small sample sizes to a larger population. But you bring up the possibility that they could have chosen people coming out of a paranoiacs support group, or a Google store. I don't have a problem sharing some data with Apple but wouldn't share more than my address with Amazon, and as little as possible to Google. But people LOVE their Alexa listening devices. I'm somewhat nervous about the Home pod, but...
It’s a survey over 1000 US WaPo readers. So basically it just shows the level of awareness of WaPo readers.
You don’t need more than a thousand to be adequately statistically significant (and there is close to zero difference between eg 1000 and 10000) - no matter how large of a group they represent ?A poll of just over a thousand US internet users. OH, I guess that’s fair, there’s only, what, 4 thousand internet users in the US anyway? Plus, it must be REALLY hard to get more than a thousand internet users to provide their opinion on something. So, this is more than likely the BEST possible outcome.
I don’t think it gets much more clickbaity than this
Anonymous my a**. If you are concerned with privacy and you use google, you are doing exactly the wrong thing. I’m sure google does. And if not, what does it matter, they have all your data anyway.
I guess we’re ignoring the fact that the above statement (about Apple’s privacy stance being bs) is complete speculation without evidence. Meanwhile you judge other people’s opinions.
Well, you may think you’ve confirmed it, at least. But these things need to be held to scientific standards.
Right... they are maybe out to get you. But I assume, then, that you don’t own a single Apple device, right?
People who trust any of them are fools. People who refuse to use any of them are just as big of fools. It's a matter of being judicious about what info you place within their grasp.
I'm surprised, and yet not surprised, by how badly Apple fared. Apple is a company that has grown a reputation for greedy and sneaky profit mongering, and is mired with an attitude of secrecy over openness, and a walled garden attitude. None of which are traits that endear trust.
privacy and those names mentioned in the same sentence is just laughable. i'll stick with apple.
I'm not even sure what is the point of this survey. Most people generally distrust companies whether the topic is on privacy or even the quality of services and products. This feels like an article that's going to be posted in the middle of a tech fan flamewar as some sort of "gotcha" against some perceived "Amazon hater" or "Google hater".