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Re:Apple building search engine to take on Google, report cl... by GeekyBear on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:06AM (#24918855)
Apple pretty famously goes out of it's way to not collect that sort of privacy busting user data in the first place.

For instance, when Apple Maps uses user devices to update it's map data like Waze does:

>“We collect data — when we do it — in an anonymous fashion, in subsections of the whole, so we couldn’t even say that there is a person that went from point A to point B.

Neither the beginning or the end of any trip is ever transmitted to Apple. Rotating identifiers, not personal information, are assigned to any data or requests sent to Apple and it augments the “ground truth” data provided by its own mapping vehicles with this “probe data” sent back from iPhones.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/29/apple-is-rebuilding-maps-f...

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Re:Apple building search engine to take on Google, report cl... by izacus on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @04:05PM (#24923518)
> Apple pretty famously goes out of it's way to not collect that sort of privacy busting user data in the first place.

It also enables Apple Ad tracking by default on iOS / iPadOS so please don't mix Apples' marketing with actual state of things in the world :/

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Re:Apple building search engine to take on Google, report cl... by GeekyBear on Thursday October 29, 2020 @06:24AM (#24928929)
What do you imagine that does?
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