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Android phones collect almost ten times more data than smartphones from Applu. This was shown by a recent survey, conducted not long after it turned out that turning off location tracking and history for some Google apps is actually more complicated than it might seem.

The survey was conducted by Professor Douglas Schmidt of Vanderbilt University and its results were published by Digital Content. NextThe survey compared the Android and iOS in terms of collecting personal data – especially that related to the user's location. Smartphones with the Android operating system and the Google web browser Chrome, running in the background, sent the user's location data to Google a total of 340 times over a twenty-four-hour period. The relevant data was sent approximately fourteen times in one hour. Even when the smartphone was idle, it sentone with Android, location data is collected approximately fifty times more often than with Apple iPhone, which ran the mobile version of the web browser Safari. In case the user uses their smartphoneone does not use, does not send browser Safari Google has nowhere near as much data as a browser ChromeThis applies to both browser data and device data.

Google officially confirmed last week that the data is sent even if a user turns off Location History. If a user does not want Google to collect their location data, nestIt is not only possible to turn off the location history function, but also your activity on the web and in applications. Google collects the relevant data mainly for the purpose of targeted advertising - which represents a significant part of its revenue. Given that Apple makes a profit mainly from the sale of hardware, it does not necessarily need to collect this data.

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