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Re:Under iOS 11, authorities won’t be able to image your dev... by ricardobeat on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @03:47AM (#15225528)
The difference is that Google owns the keys that encrypt your files. Services like GDrive, GMail, Google Photos, Assistant, all depend on processing your data in the cloud. Apple does all of that locally (because they can't access any of it otherwise), trading some scalability and sophistication for privacy.
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Re:Under iOS 11, authorities won’t be able to image your dev... by lern_too_spel on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @12:33PM (#15228737)
We were discussing data stored on the device. Just like Apple, Google does not have the keys to decrypt the data on the device. And just like Google, Apple has the keys to decrypt the data in their equivalents to the GDrive, Gmail, and Google Photos cloud services for web access. The only difference is that Apple's services are significantly less useful.
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