Google and Government: A Threat to Your Privacy

News that Android and Apple phone communicate collect data on your personal information reveal much about the two companies and their views of the consumer.

Upon the release of the news, Steve Jobs took to the microphone denying Apple products track users calling such accusations “false.”  Emails leaked to the Mercury News tell a different story about Google.  “I cannot stress enough how important Google’s wifi location database is to our Android and mobile product strategy,” Google location service product manager Steve Lee wrote. “We absolutely do care about this (decision by Motorola) because we need wifi data collection in order to maintain and improve our wifi location service.”

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