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> Google had to clarify its privacy policy to explain it.[0]

Google didn't update any privacy policies in this article. It is about background collection of location data when location services was disabled that has since stopped. Meanwhile, Apple continues to collect your location data in the background with no way to disable it.

> why would bad privacy policies on iPhone make me feel better about Google spying on me?

Because you're saying that Google is uniquely deceptive on privacy when the main competitor is provably worse.

> Google was forced to respond and change their policies after public backlash.

As I showed, Apple still hasn't changed its policies on WiFi collection. Responding to privacy concerns is better than not responding to privacy concerns by any definition.



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Google isn't uniquely deceptive on privacy. It's just deceptive on privacy. Google isn't uniquely bad on privacy. It's just bad on privacy.

It is possible for multiple companies to be bad at the same things.


This I agree with. There are also degrees of deception and badness on privacy, and Apple is by far the worst among the major tech companies, even beyond Facebook, which has not given the Chinese government wholesale access to a subset of its users' data and then lied about it.

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