Outcry after study shows Google’s Android collects ten times more data than Apple’s iOS

A damning report into Google data collection found that the Android operating system sends ten times more personal information, including location data, to the tech giant than Apple’s iOS. The study caused an outcry on Twitter.

Yet, the research by Professor Douglas C. ,Schmidt from Vanderbilt University claims the figure is only the tip of the iceberg, as it represents activity when a device is stationary, meaning the user is not interacting with it. Once users start using their phone, the data sent to the server increases “considerably”.

Disgruntled Android users have flocked to Twitter to accuse the tech giant of “tapping into everything it can.”

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