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#38
Originally Posted by DaveP1 View Post
AFAIK, nobody has demonstrated that if you use an Android phone you lose any more privacy than if you use a Maemo phone. Google tracks you when you use your Google apps or access Google sites regardless of what device you use to do that. Your carrier tracks you whenever you use your device regardless of what OS it's running.

If you want to condemn Google for the amount of data it has about the world's population, fine. But Android has nothing to do with it.
I think colnago, Duncan, mrebanza have said it well. Phone companies know where you are and who you talk to, web searches can track your interest (I use adblock with easy privacy and search with scroogle.org scraper..these help a little), your router keep logs of your site, etc. My problem is that google is one company that collects a lot of info from multiple sources on any and all platforms, and as far as I can tell their main purpose is to make a profit from ad and tracking services. What happen if they're bought out, will the next owners have respect for your info.

This for me is too much, for other not so much. I'm just thankful that for now nokia is probably the only company that has HW/SW that is not tracking everything you do (they probably will eventually). I'm not saying android sucks, because it doesn't...there's actually some very cool tech going on there and with google other services. I just choose not to participate.

It's probably a loosing battle, but I'd like to hold on to what little privacy I might have left...

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