[tmpz22]

And your data on all those platforms - Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, etc. are ALL building comprehensive profiles on you, selling your data, and probably tossing it straight to the government in one way or another.

[ElProlactin]

And just so we're clear: these companies are building these profiles even if you haven't registered and/or logged into their services.

[dd8601fn]

“In one way or another” is doing a huge amount of work in that sentence. The spectrum of privacy postures there is massive.

[fsflover]

Indeed:

Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devices than Apple from iOS (therecord.media) [but Apple still collects a lot!]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26639261