Google collects data around the
clock from the phones of Android users in particular – their location, shopping habits, music, searches and more, a Vanderbilt computer science professor found.
Doug Schmidt was able to track the practice for a study commissioned by Digital Content Next, a trade group representing digital publishers.
Google owns both Android and the Chrome search engine and, according to Schmidt's study, a dormant Android phone running Chrome in the background sent location information roughly 14 times an hour. Data requests to Apple phones occur far less frequently, he found.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-09-video-google-android.html#jCp
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