A study has now emerged to prove that even though the two types of devices are tracked, the android phone is tracked more often.
The study, a 55-page report titled ‘Google Data Collection’, carried out by Professor Douglas C Schmidt, professor of computer science at Vanderbilt University compares Google’s passive data collection in the two devices.
“Our experiments show that a dormant, stationary Android phone (with Chrome active in the background) communicated location information to Google 340 times during a 24-hour period, or at an average of 14 data communications per hour,” Schmidt says.
“In fact, location information constituted 35 percent of all the data samples sent to Google. In contrast, a similar experiment showed that on an iOS Apple device with Safari (where neither Android nor Chrome were used), Google could not collect any appreciable data (location or otherwise) in the absence of a user interaction with the device.”
