“Last week, I asked Apple to give me all the data it’s collected on me since I first became a customer in 2010 with the purchase of my first iPhone,” Zack Whittaker reports for ZDNet. “That was nearly a decade ago. ”
“The recent Cambridge Analytica scandal revealed just how much tech companies have on us — enough to figure out who we might vote for at the ballot box, for example,” Whittaker reports. “Apple? Not so much.”
“Apple took a little over a week to send me all the data it’s collected on me, amounting to almost two dozen Excel spreadsheets at just 5MB in total — roughly the equivalent of a high-quality photo snapped on my iPhone,” Whittaker reports. “Facebook, Google, and Twitter all took a few minutes to an hour to send me all the data they store on me — ranging from a few hundred megabytes to a couple of gigabytes in size.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: People who value their privacy use Apple products.
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Oh, wow. Apple’s using Microsoft Office? Lol.
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Actually, they do. Just about everywhere.
Dèja vu! We’ve covered this subject here before. Induced senility from reading and foisting too much propaganda, MDN? It’s bad for you, you know!
A bit of redundancy is good in the morning, a bit of redundancy is good in the afternoon, a bit of redundancy is good in the evening.
Welcome to the Department of Redundancy Department. – – The word ‘redundancy’ isn’t as common in the USA as the UK. Let’s examine the word by way of examination:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/redundancy
Reality doesn’t become unreal simply because it’s been restated.
Denying reality, though? Now that’s what’s truly bad for you, you know?
You know I know, you know?
Dprater2014
How do you know they used Microsoft office. Apple could’ve use Numbers converted it to Microsoft office for the author sake.
Actually all this data was probably in a enterprise level database. Excel would just be the most common way to export tabular data.
They may have sent him a standard open CSV file. If the author has MS Excel installed, it claims CSV files by default and opens them as if they are spreadsheets.
Apple ID
Apple account holder name
Apple account physical address
Apple account phone number
Apple account date of creation
IP address
log of iCloud data downloads
photo library
contacts
Safari browsing history
log of iMessage usage
log of FaceTime usage
Apple downloads
Apple support requests
entire history of Apple purchases
CRM tracking data
log of every iTunes login
log of all iTunes Match downloads
log of every Game Center login
log of password resets
log of Find My iPhone usage
log of repair transactions
marketing contact info