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Some app developers are going to be better at respecting privacy than Google, while some are going to be worse. The problem arises when you have to assess each
by II2II 5y ago
Some app developers are going to be better at respecting privacy than Google, while some are going to be worse. The problem arises when you have to assess each one: people either won't or run the risk of relying upon misinformation.
- Nextgrid 5y agoThe kind of analytics data a typical telemetry system will collect is pretty benign in isolation. It only becomes a risk when it's in the hand of an adversary with a global view of the internet, such as Google, Facebook or large-scale analytics providers such as Mixpanel (as their libraries are integrated everywhere and they have a ton of traffic they can use to correlate and deanonymize users).