Android devices collect location data for Google despite privacy settings Comments

• ProJames
• r7b
• 21 Nov 2017

Hey, why stop getting their location info when you can sell ads with them?
I hate you Oogle. I don't want you to knwk where I am, then respect it. If someone kept asking where I was, then it would be harassing and thus a legal offense. And finding it out without my consent would be privacy violation and again a legal offense.
These multinational corporations... I swear...

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• Anonymous
• XNU
• 21 Nov 2017

"generally encrypted" lol

@Swaggy: non removable batteries make the phone slimmer. Also why are some android fans obsessed with Apple? Not even a single mention in the article yet.....

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• AnonD-711468
• 3Ai
• 21 Nov 2017

Imagine why 's't Google and Apple the first and most passionate proponents of sealed batteries ... I'll give you a hint it starts with "data" and it ends in "mining"..

And I can understand them, I really do, they have to turn a buck. The proponents (for sealed batteries) in here I don't understand... they only lose (autonomy, charge time, servicability, privacy) and they gain close to nothing ... they say one is born every second ... oh well.

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• The-Artist
• gNR
• 21 Nov 2017

I always knew it.. Despite location services being turned off, apps and websites still able to collect location data. This is pretty bad and just an outright violation of user privacy. Android would've been a better OS if it was completely Google-free. Hope new smartphone OS will arrive soon to provide more options for users.

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• Ofir
• 6qZ
• 21 Nov 2017

But mah freedom

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• Jason Melling
• vnG
• 21 Nov 2017

Of course they do, they would be dumb not to.

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