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It's secure. The data is only going to Google. OP agreed to that when he logged into the device with their Google account not when they bought the device. Als
by Zhenya 9y ago
It's secure. The data is only going to Google. OP agreed to that when he logged into the device with their Google account not when they bought the device.
Also: security != privacy
- ucaetano 9y agoExactly, unsurprisingly, people are surprised that when they decided to share their location with Google, Google actually gets their location. Shocking.
- fenwick67 9y agoYeah I think the word they meant to use was "private". Having a user check a box to agree to this along with a million other things is definitely legal (which I guess is your point?), but it's less than ideal for users. Consumers buy a phone with the anticipation of being able to watch Netflix and Hulu and send text messages (insert other use cases here), then pay $600 for it, then they are stopped with a "oh by the way if you want all of these apps you need to tell us where you are all the time". It's legally fine but that doesn't make it non-evil.
- excalibur 9y agoPeople generally login to their Android device with their Google account out of a perceived necessity, in order to 1) access the Google Play store to get apps they're actually interested in, and 2) get their gmail to sync to their phone. There is a certain level of sending-data-to-google that is required to facilitate these functions. Android by default sends considerably more.