Does Apple sell your data?

Apple does not share personal data with third parties for their own marketing purposes.
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Does Apple take privacy seriously?

Privacy is a fundamental human right. It's also one of our core values. Which is why we design our products and services to protect it. That's the kind of innovation we believe in.
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Is Apple really better for privacy?

However, with Facebook, most of the data they store is information users enter. According to the study, Apple only stores the information that is necessary to maintain users' accounts. Apple is in a league above Amazon in protecting user privacy. It is the most privacy-conscious firm out there.
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Does Apple give your data to police?

Apple is committed to maintaining the privacy of the customers of Apple products and services (“Apple customers”). Accordingly, other than in emergency situations as provided by law, information about Apple customers will not be released without valid legal process.
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Can Apple employees see your photos?

Apple says it will not gain access to the messages or photos, but it will use machine learning to determine whether a photo is explicit.
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Which privacy is better Google or Apple?

Apple uses end-to-end encryption, which only allows the user access to certain sensitive data. Google does not offer this for Google Drive. Apple has stricter policies for third-party app developers and requires user consent before sharing data. Google has less strict policies and may share data without consent.
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Does Apple know your face?

Face ID data does not leave your device, and is never backed up to iCloud or anywhere else. If you choose to enroll in Face ID, you can control how it is used or disable it at any time.
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Does Apple Harvest data?

Apple's advertising platform does not track you, meaning that it does not link user or device data collected from our apps with user or device data collected from third parties for targeted advertising or advertising measurement purposes, and does not share user or device data with data brokers.
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Can I delete health data from iCloud?

Apple encrypts your health data when it is stored in iCloud, but you still may want to delete it. However, deleting the data is permanent, so you may wish to back up a copy locally before deleting it.
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Who can see my Apple health data?

If you're using iOS 12 or later and have turned on two-factor authentication for your Apple ID, health records are encrypted using end-to-end encryption through iCloud. This means only you can access this information, and only on devices where you're signed in to iCloud.
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Can Apple see what you Google?

Your device may send information such as location, topics of interest (for example, cooking or basketball), your search queries, suggestions you have selected, apps you use, and related device usage data to Apple. This information does not include search results that show files or content on your device.
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Can Apple hear what you say?

Apple says that Siri is not eavesdropping at all. Instead, the software's ability to respond to a voice command is programmed in. So, it's not really listening at all times. The iPhone can only hold a small amount of audio, and it only records what happens after it is triggered by the “Hey, Siri” command.
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Can Apple see what you are doing?

The Apple advertising platform does not track you, nor does it buy or share your personal information with other companies. Your Apple Pay transactions, Health app data, and HomeKit app data are not used by the Apple advertising platform to deliver ads.
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Does Apple spy more than Google?

When idle, Android sends roughly 1MB of data to Google every 12 hours, compared with iOS sending Apple about 52KB over the same period. In the US alone, Android collectively gathers about 1.3TB of data every 12 hours.
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Does Apple track you more than Google?

A researcher in Ireland compared Google's and Apple's operating systems side-by-side. The result showed that while your device is constantly collecting data, Google's mobile OS collects 20 times more than iOS.
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Does Samsung sell your data?

How is your data shared? Samsung does not provide users' personal data to external parties, but may provide it for specific reasons such as laws and regulations, investigation purposes, fee settlement, and statistics.
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Does Apple lie about privacy?

Apple promised that the “device analytics” sent to its servers were anonymous. But it turns out that's not true, according to the researchers. Everything you do in Apple apps, such as the Store, transmits an analytics row, containing a field that directly and uniquely identifies you.
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Is Apple spying on iPhone users?

Earlier this month, Mysk discovered that Apple collects analytics information even when you switch off an iPhone setting called 'Share iPhone Analytics', an action that Apple pledges 'disables the sharing of Device Analytics altogether. Knowing the DSID is like knowing your name. It is one-to-one to your identity.
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Does Apple warn about hackers?

It's important to know that Apple does not send security warnings, so you should not follow any instructions. What you should do is run your device through a good security app to avoid falling victim to these scams. Why do I get Apple security warnings?
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Will Apple scan deleted photos?

If you are referring to the new CSAM features, they'll scan them when being uploaded to iCloud, once uploaded, they will have already been scanned and deleting them will do nothing to prevent that.
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Is Apple still scanning photos?

Privacy wins yet again as Apple users no longer need to worry about the company scanning their iCloud photo libraries.
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Can Apple see your deleted photos?

Deleted photos and videos are kept in the Recently Deleted album for 30 days, where you can recover or permanently remove them from all devices. , then tap Hide in the list of options. Hidden photos are moved to the Hidden album. You can't view them anywhere else.
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Do police see Google searches?

While police do not actively monitor Google searches, they are able to obtain a warrant for your search history if they have probable cause to do so.
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