Bad News For Android Users: A Study Reveals Google Collects 20 Times As Much Data As Apple.

It goes without saying that businesses are always vying for your data. Although you might need to read the fine print, privacy agreements from app developers, email services, operating systems, and others make this explicit.

Your personal information may be disclosed to other parties by Big Tech with or without your knowledge. The app store contains some of the main offenders of this practise. To find out which apps share the most data with others, tap or click here.

The parent companies of Apple and Google receive data that is continuously collected by your iPhone or Android device. This includes details about your location, accounts, contacts, usage patterns, and even health and fitness information. This is common practise for both Apple and Google, but a recent study found that one gathers significantly more information than the other.

Android Vs iOS.

One of these digital behemoths now has a new advantage, but the argument between iPhone and Android consumers is probably never going to stop. An Irish researcher side-by-side analysed the operating systems of Google and Apple. The outcome demonstrated that while your device is continuously gathering data, Google's mobile OS gathers 20 times more data than iOS.

While that is a problem, let's examine the information that both platforms gather

• The International Mobile Equipment Identity, or IMEI, of your phone. Every device has a 15-digit serial number that allows carriers and manufacturers to find your phone if it is lost or stolen.
• The hardware serial number of your phone is another way to monitor it. In addition to warranty considerations, this can also be used for service and support.
• The serial number of your SIM card.
• Your contact info.
• Your gadget's ID.
• data from telemetry.

For instance, an Android phone starts up with around 1MB of data collected, compared to 42KB for an iPhone. Every 12 hours, Android exports about 1MB of data, compared to 52KB for Apple.

Google Denies It Is.

So it accuses someone of wrongdoing. The business issued the following statement: "We found problems in the researcher's approach for estimating data volume and disagree with the paper's claims that an Android handset shares 20 times more data than an iPhone.

We informed the researcher of our concerns regarding the technique prior to publication because our study indicates that these results are off by an order of magnitude.

Perpetual Collection.

The investigation demonstrated that your data is continuously transferred back to Apple and Google regardless of the operating system you use. Even when you are not using the phone, both systems establish a connection to their back-end servers every four and a half minutes.

You have the option to refuse some data gathering, but not all of it. There is hope yet.