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Who said they are using or selling it? This is literally from the article: > “In January of this year, we began looking into using Cell ID codes as an additio

Who said they are using or selling it? This is literally from the article: > “In January of this year, we began looking into using Cell ID codes as an additional signal to further improve the speed and performance of message delivery,” the Google spokesperson said in an email. “However, we never incorporated Cell ID into our network sync system, so that data was immediately discarded, and we updated it to no longer request Cell ID.”

kerberos84 9y ago
Ah, of course we should believe the google spokesperson.
- cptskippy 9y ago
  I don't think we should trust any of the big tech companies with our data. We should instead accept that anything we share with them is not necessarily private. Despite Apple positioning itself as the privacy minded company righteously protecting your personal information, they still share it with 3rd parties to implement products like Siri. They're very secretive and don't talk about that fact and they only begrudgingly admit it when something like a data leak occurs. Do we have any transparency into those companies that Apple is sharing data with? What standard does Apple hold them to with regards to protecting that data? No one knows because Apple won't say. Apple's stance on security and privacy is as much theater as it is truth. They're in the business of selling you a product and to make it appealing. The sad fact is they could tell you the new iPhone 11 allows you to fart rainbows but only if no one is looking and people would believe it.
  - kerberos84 9y ago
    Totally agree. I don't believe Apple either. But google is getting too aggressive and annoying. Google's 90% of revenue comes from advertising. That means the better they track you the more they will earn with targeted ads. On the other side Apple's revenue relies on mostly iPhone sales. Moreover, Apple started a war against tracking with 3rd party cookies. Which is a very smart move, gaining customer trust and hit the Google on it's self playground.
    - cptskippy 9y ago
      > google is getting too aggressive and annoying. I absolutely agree. They're exerting power the way Microsoft did in the 90s. The latest "feature" of Gmail on Android, where it opens links in a Gmail Browser instead of your default browser, is Microsoft level shit and has me looking for an alternative.

kerberos84 9y ago

Ah, of course we should believe the google spokesperson.

cptskippy 9y ago
I don't think we should trust any of the big tech companies with our data. We should instead accept that anything we share with them is not necessarily private. Despite Apple positioning itself as the privacy minded company righteously protecting your personal information, they still share it with 3rd parties to implement products like Siri. They're very secretive and don't talk about that fact and they only begrudgingly admit it when something like a data leak occurs. Do we have any transparency into those companies that Apple is sharing data with? What standard does Apple hold them to with regards to protecting that data? No one knows because Apple won't say. Apple's stance on security and privacy is as much theater as it is truth. They're in the business of selling you a product and to make it appealing. The sad fact is they could tell you the new iPhone 11 allows you to fart rainbows but only if no one is looking and people would believe it.
- kerberos84 9y ago
  Totally agree. I don't believe Apple either. But google is getting too aggressive and annoying. Google's 90% of revenue comes from advertising. That means the better they track you the more they will earn with targeted ads. On the other side Apple's revenue relies on mostly iPhone sales. Moreover, Apple started a war against tracking with 3rd party cookies. Which is a very smart move, gaining customer trust and hit the Google on it's self playground.
  - cptskippy 9y ago
    > google is getting too aggressive and annoying. I absolutely agree. They're exerting power the way Microsoft did in the 90s. The latest "feature" of Gmail on Android, where it opens links in a Gmail Browser instead of your default browser, is Microsoft level shit and has me looking for an alternative.