Smartphones share our data every four and a half minutes, says study (opens in new tab)

As long as Apple has the encryption keys they should not but trusted, but Apple and Google are a smidge different

> Google handsets collected “a notably larger volume of handset data than Apple” with 1MB of data being sent from idle Google Pixel handsets every 12 hours, compared with 52KB sent from the iPhone.

That’s 20x less than Google collects. If I knew it was all encrypted on device with keys only I own, I’d be much happier, but 20x less is better than nothing.

This research is great to see how we are being constantly followed and profiled by Google and Apple. We need more privacy respecting options for mobile phones, such as /e/ OS mentioned in the research. It should be easy to use for non-technical users, and guard privacy by default. I believe e foundation does a good job in providing a user friendly and private android.

Some explaination here? https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/14/google_android_data_a...

The original study https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/apple_google.pdf. They had to jailbreak the iPhone for patching several libraries to circumvent certificate pinning.

Shouldn’t the link be changed from Irishtimes to the pdf?

Meanwhile my Xiaomi phone is constantly sending data when on wifi (by looking at the arrows in the wifi icon).

I'm never buying this crap again.