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I’m not wrong. Your quote supports my assertion.

You seem to be ignoring these important words:

“...in an anonymous and encrypted form”

Apple doesn’t end up knowing where you are.

Even though colloquially we can say they ‘send your location’, they don’t actually learn where you are.

This invalidates support for your claim about how iOS privacy is worse than Android.



> “...in an anonymous and encrypted form”

This is not so hard to reverse given that Apple also has your location tied to your identity from other Apple services you use. Once you match that location to the encrypted user, who is often seen requesting their location data from work or home, you get the encrypted user's location data identified.

Compare to Android, where you don't have to send your location data anywhere to get your GPS location. iOS location privacy is strictly worse.

You also ignored the fact that every app install gets reported to Apple tied to your identity, which is arguably even more egregious.




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