With growing pressure from Apple and their iOS devices, Google wants to make sure that Android device users will not ditch the platform because of security and privacy issues. Android recently simplified the way users are informed about what an app accesses. Not surprisingly, Google is thinking about going back to a more detailed way of presenting what user data is accessed.


These new changes to Android’s privacy and security may be discussed and presented to the public at its developer conference, Google I/O, in Sans Francisco this month. As the simplified privacy warnings gave growth to more app usage (via easier installation), more and more security issues are making Android users more paranoid about what kind of data apps access.

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It’s rumored that the new privacy and security settings will give back to users specific choices and options on what an app can or cannot access. That sounds like good news, doesn’t it? Google is keen to protect its platform share, which stands at around 80% of all smartphone devices worldwide. Apple’s iOS owns around 15% of that market.

With security and privacy issues rising, there are signs that in some markets people are making the jump to iOS just because it provides better privacy. Google hopes to assure the public that their data can still be protected using the Android platform.

VIA: Bloomberg

5 COMMENTS

  1. iOS provides better privacy or it GIVES the APPEARANCE that it has better privacy? Or, it’s better at hiding it’s snooping? Sheesh.

  2. The Era of Absolute Privacy is coming! No need in cookies or browsing history anymore.

    I discovered and patented how to structure any data: Language has its own Internal parsing, indexing and statistics. For instance, there are two sentences:

    a) ‘Fire!’
    b) ‘Dismay and anguish were depicted on every countenance; the males turned pale, and the females fainted; Mr. Snodgrass and Mr. Winkle grasped each other by the hand, and gazed at the spot where their leader had gone down, with frenzied eagerness; while Mr. Tupman, by way of rendering the promptest assistance, and at the same time conveying to any persons who might be within hearing, the clearest possible notion of the catastrophe, ran off across the country at his utmost speed, screaming ‘Fire!’ with all his might.’

    Evidently, that the phrase ‘Fire!’ has different importance into both sentences, in regard to extra information in both. This distinction is reflected as the phrase weights: the first has 1, the second – 0.02; the greater weight signifies stronger emotional ‘acuteness’.
    First you need to parse obtaining phrases from clauses, for sentences and paragraphs.
    This is a small sample of the structured data:
    confusion – signify – : 333321
    speaking – done – once : 333112
    speaking – was – both : 333109
    place – is – in : 250000
    To see the validity of technology – pick up any sentence.

    Do you have a pencil?

    All other technologies depend on spying, on quires, on SQL, all of them, finding statistics. See IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Google and Yahoo? Apache Hadoop and NoSQL? My technology is the only one that obtains statistics from texts themselves.

    Google cannot give you any privacy: Google uses the technology that is based on the spying.

    Being structured information will search for users based on their profiles of structured data. Each and every user can get only specifically tailored for him information: there is no any privacy issue, nobody ever will know what the user got and read. (By the way – no spam anymore!
    My technology exploits the Laws of Nature, which determine the inner construction of all Languages: I came from Analytic Philosophy, from Internal Relations Theory.

  3. Where are these ” signs that in some markets people are making the jump to iOS just because it provides better privacy.” Do you have proof that’s what it is have you conducted polls. If so please post links to these. Otherwise I don’t believe you

  4. Yep. My technology billions time cheaper and it’s about databases. IBM, Oracle, SAP, HP, Microsoft, Cloudera and many more are coming to fight Google.

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