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Akamai and Microsoft. When your Apple device communicates with "Apple", many/most of those IP addresses are owned by Akamai. Even when you search DuckDuckGo,
by decasteve 5y ago
Akamai and Microsoft.
When your Apple device communicates with "Apple", many/most of those IP addresses are owned by Akamai.
Even when you search DuckDuckGo, both the search results (Bing) and web servers that serve the content are owned by Microsoft (Azure).
- saddlerustle 5y agoThat covers one or two of the list I suppose, but is there any reason to believe Akamai is lying to its customers and harvesting their users' data? I can't think of any incentive for them to do that, it would be brazen fraud for an insignificant revenue source.
- alexanderdmitri 5y agoAkamai's privacy policy on personal data: https://www.akamai.com/us/en/privacy-policies/privacy-shield-policy.jsp https://www.akamai.com/us/en/privacy-policies/privacy-shield...
- decasteve 5y agoI wasn't trying to make a point other than sharing examples of companies, like Akamai, that store a lot of personal data on behalf of others. Storing data with Apple is storing it with Akamai, and all of the other third parties involved--where "third parties" becomes a blanket term in privacy policies and not an exhaustive list. The "chain of trust" in this regard has some missing links. So far as their businesses are concerned, the data is safeguarded and I would never expect it to be sold--not by the top of the data food chain in any case. But there's the issue of data being stored with US companies requiring being subject to US laws, such as the USA PATRIOT Act.