New study reveals iPhones aren't as private as you think

Google’s Android operating system is a privacy nightmare, a new study of cellphone data collection finds. Yet it turns out Apple’s iOS is a privacy nightmare too.

“Both iOS and Google Android share data with Apple/Google on average every 4.5 [minutes],” a research paper published last week by Trinity College in Dublin says. “The ‘essential’ data collection is extensive, and likely at odds with reasonable user expectations.”

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