[raxxorrax]

He consented to the collection and Apple would have exactly the same issues.

Also Android is marginally more useful than an iOS device. I know that it is fancy as a music player and social media apps, but it isn't really what it could be.

[rurban]

He consented to the collection only for marketing purposes, but explicitly not to be forwarded to/bought by criminal US government agencies.

[tome]

> He consented to the collection and Apple would have exactly the same issues.

Would it? In iOS you can selectively forbid applications from using locations services.

[raxxorrax]

My grandma uses an iPhone and it leaks far more data than her PC. Yes, the handling is the issue and here iOS is as bad as Android.

That is the metric I use to determine that the app store security model is bad.

[ben-schaaf]

> In iOS you can selectively forbid applications from using locations services.

The same is true on Android. I have location services denied on the browser I'm typing this from.

[saiya-jin]

so can you in Android... well guess what, it doesn't add any feeling of security on my chinese phone (and for any non-US person, chinese or american are the same - foreign powers gathering all data possible, which may or may not be used against you in the future).

[tome]

After having read the responses to my parent comment I'm confused. Why would disabling location services on his phone not have solved the problem?