Android sends 20x more data to Google than iOS sends to Apple, study says

Found on Ars Technica on Friday, 09 April 2021
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Whether you have an iPhone or an Android device, it’s continuously sending data including your location, phone number, and local network details to Apple or Google.

Pre-installed apps or services also made network connections, even when they hadn’t been opened or used. Whereas iOS automatically sent Apple data from Siri, Safari, and iCloud, Android collected data from Chrome, YouTube, Google Docs, Safetyhub, Google Messenger, the device clock, and the Google search bar.

Leith said the data collection by both OSes is concerning because it’s readily linked to a user’s name, email address, payment card data, and possibly to other devices the user has. What’s more, the constant connections to back-end servers necessarily reveals the IP address of the device and, by extension, the general geographic location of the user.

So what if others send out more? Someone else is worse, but that does not justify to spy on users on a slightly smaller scale.