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Re:Google is paying Apple billions per year to remain on the... by Nerdfest on Monday August 14, 2017 @02:30PM (#15011168)
Seems to me that Google has a better privacy record than Apple. Both companies get all sorts of data about their users, but Apple has had some serious data breaches.
Re:Google is paying Apple billions per year to remain on the... by Mister_Snuggles on Monday August 14, 2017 @02:47PM (#15011361)
Do you have any examples of these? Were they a case of Apple as a whole getting breached (e.g., all hashed iCloud passwords) or individual accounts?

I use Apple services for quite a few things, so whenever I hear about a data breach I evaluate how I use the service and how I can guard against similar breaches that might affect my data.

EDIT: I should point out that this applies to other services that I use as well. This is something everyone who relies on a 3rd party service should keep an eye on as a matter of course.

Re:Google is paying Apple billions per year to remain on the... by macintux on Monday August 14, 2017 @03:45PM (#15012117)
I don't remember ever hearing of an Apple data breach. Certainly some of the celebrity photo hacks were initially attributed to a general iCloud security problem, but were later found to be typical password problems.
Re:Google is paying Apple billions per year to remain on the... by stephenr on Monday August 14, 2017 @03:49PM (#15012163)
What are you talking about?

Even if Apple had data breaches that it was responsible for (you do know that the celebrity titty-shot photos were all social-engineered/re-used passwords right? None were actually iCloud breaches), that isn't about privacy, that's about security.

Google literally builds profiles about it's products (the eyeballs looking at *.google.com) to better place ads in front of said eyeballs, because that's how they make 90% of their money.

Apple does everything it can to anonymise what data it does need to see: there's no sign-in for maps, it reset's it's random identifier periodically, and each route is split into multiple segments.