Android is a massive tracking device

[backstreetboy]

‘Android is a massive tracking device.’

[Image: A slide from a confidential Apple strategy document from 2013. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25052199/7agrDoh.png?quality=90&strip=all] That was the message from Apple in an internal strategy document from 2013. It has been...

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‘Android is a massive tracking device.’That was the message from Apple in an internal strategy document from 2013. It has been revealed as part of the ongoing US v. Google antitrust trial.

 

[RedViking]

Thank goodness. Otherwise we won't get accurate Google map traffic.

 

[soulie]

probably a well known fact yes .but i dont care, my phone is so in/unaccurate ,good luck to them .

 

[Bliksis]

Oh no, don't say that?!

 

[UB40]

Comes as no surprise, we allow these apps permissions on all sorts of stuff.

 

[lkpat]

‘Android is a massive tracking device.’

[Image: A slide from a confidential Apple strategy document from 2013. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25052199/7agrDoh.png?quality=90&strip=all] That was the message from Apple in an internal strategy document from 2013. It has been...

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LOL

With the release of iOS 14, Apple promised to protect iPhone users from having the MAC address of their devices being tracked. That feature was fundamentally broken. Until now.

iPhone users who don't want to be tracked need Apple's iOS 17.1 privacy patch

With the release of iOS 14, Apple promised to protect iPhone users from having the MAC address of their devices being tracked. That feature was fundamentally broken. Until now.

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Don't believe the marketing hype @backstreetboy

 

[backstreetboy]

LOL

With the release of iOS 14, Apple promised to protect iPhone users from having the MAC address of their devices being tracked. That feature was fundamentally broken. Until now.

iPhone users who don't want to be tracked need Apple's iOS 17.1 privacy patch

With the release of iOS 14, Apple promised to protect iPhone users from having the MAC address of their devices being tracked. That feature was fundamentally broken. Until now.

www.zdnet.com

Don't believe the marketing hype @backstreetboy

Less tracking is reason 672 why I moved on over to iOS.

 

[UB40]

Just use a VPN

 

[rh1]

Comes as no surprise, we allow these apps permissions on all sorts of stuff.

You can disable access:

 

[PaulGherkin]

This is a reason why, in my former industry, an Android device was declared a no-no!
Too many security holes, the devices can be hacked all too easily, as many a pentest has revealed.

 

[SeRpEnT]

This is a reason why, in my former industry, an Android device was declared a no-no!
Too many security holes, the devices can be hacked all too easily, as many a pentest has revealed.

 

[backstreetboy]

I have nothing to hide, oh well

So you don't believe in free speech because you have nothing to say as well?

 

[ShaunSA]

Oh noes! My phone is tracking me!

/hides under bed

 

[KleinBoontjie]

Less tracking is reason 672 why I moved on over to iOS.

So how do you "Find" your phone when it is stolen or lost if you can't track it?

 

[backstreetboy]

So how do you "Find" your phone when it is stolen or lost if you can't track it?

Fire up the backup phone, sign in and move on with my life.

 

[UrBaN963]

Wait until you find out how GPS' work!

 

[HartsockZA]

‘Android is a massive tracking device.’

[Image: A slide from a confidential Apple strategy document from 2013. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25052199/7agrDoh.png?quality=90&strip=all] That was the message from Apple in an internal strategy document from 2013. It has been...

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Cool I hope it's recording my butt daily. Make me famous

 

[KleinBoontjie]

Fire up the backup phone, sign in and move on with my life.

So just write off a R30k phone, that easy? I'm impressed.....

 

[Hush9300]

Apple will soon have to grapple with similar issues now they're serving ads.

 

[Grubscrew]

I have nothing to hide, unlike apple users.... Looking at Jeffrey Epstein and friends....