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>> Sure, you can switch to Google/Android, which as the giant ad company (in other words: personal data hover/mass surveillance company)

While on the iPhone: Do you use Google search ? Do you use Google maps ?

Well, if you do , there's not much sense in hiding from Google. And if you use Android, you could use tools like cyanogen's "privacy guard" to hide your data from all/most app authors , which i don't think you can do in iOS.

Also , unless they target you specifically, so long that you use an alternative keyboard - i don't think Google on Android collects your key press data - so you can use anonymity apps for special circumstances, But i could be wrong about that. Same goes for encryption keys, unless your targeted.



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