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Snooping Android 11

For all the legitimate criticisms that can be levelled at it, there’s no doubt that Apple has, in recent years, become something of a champion for privacy and security. It has added a host of new features for iOS that have solidified its status as a healthy custodian of your data. It’s very far from perfect, of course, but it’s continuing to add tools that will help users ensure that the contents of their phone remain theirs alone.

The same cannot be said of Google, however. The company, whose business model is built on selling consumers to advertisers, has been much slower to adopt new privacy tools. But things

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