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Here’s a naive question. This all sounds noble and all , but doesn’t Apple know just as much or more about you via phone / watch / iCloud / iTunes / Apple Pay

Here’s a naive question. This all sounds noble and all , but doesn’t Apple know just as much or more about you via phone / watch / iCloud / iTunes / Apple Pay / Apple TV? Are we celebrating here that they’re not openly selling this information or using as primary business model ? Or that it’s only used for internal business?

r00fus 8y ago
Apple has been criticized in the past for having an internal culture/dictates to avoid "synergizing" this kind of info between their products/services - criticized because it affects the quality of features like Siri. Contrast to companies like Google (who don't directly sell your info but still profit from it) or Facebook (who have had numerous exfiltration incidents over the years and who sell very targetable info that could be used to isolate a single person). Meanwhile Equifax has horrible security and you aren't even remotely their customer - they just collect your data and get passive income from that.