One of the most violent discussions that we see in the comments are those that talk about security and privacy, as some find it an opportunity to mock Android and say that iOS is more secure, and others find it comments that it has nothing of great interest and tempts others to spy. In this article we will talk about the two points; Is privacy really a luxury? Is iOS more privacy protection than Android?
There are imprecise notions about privacy and the importance of protecting it; Some think that he is a normal person as well as a "man" and does not use credit cards on his phone or computer and accordingly there is nothing to fear about privacy; Whoever wants to breach or violate privacy will not find anything important. This may be true in the case of hackers intending to hack a device for a specific person, such as a famous person, a bank official, or a politician. But the truth is that breaching privacy is more complicated than this. In order to learn the importance of privacy even for the average person, we will tell you an example of a party very famous for violating privacy, which is "Facebook".
Facebook always aims, like any social service, to study its users and find out what they prefer, in order to make you prolong the period of your use of it. So it is always experimenting with users without letting them know that it is being tested on them. For example, between August and October 2010, Facebook conducted a study to explore how news spreads to it. This study was conducted on 253 million users, which is a huge and terrifying number, especially since the number of Facebook users at the time was approximately 550 million. Another experiment in the same year was conducted on 61 million people and in 2012 they conducted an experiment on 151 million people.
You may be wondering how do these experiments work and what happens in them? Experiences In short, Facebook monitors your behavior, then makes adjustments to the News Feed and sees what has changed in your style and interaction. Indeed, the site announced its discovery that we are strongly affected by these experiences, and even said that in 2010 he managed to persuade 340 people to go to vote in the US elections using these experiences.
Reports said experiments have already shown that we are affected by the site and thus shape our behavior. For example, if Facebook publishes many positive news in the "news feed" and hides the negative news, the result will be that we, too, start publishing positive news. And vice versa. That is, it controls our moods and feelings (in a certain proportion, of course). Let's imagine another terrifying example together.
Imagine that there are elections to choose a president in a country, so Facebook, directly or through an intermediary, supports a specific candidate; Accordingly, it controls the news that appears to you; Then he shows you the positive news that is published about the candidate who supports him and hides the bad news from him. Consequently, you find yourself over time seeing tons of negative news about a certain candidate, so you hate him, find positive about the other, and support him. In the end, the candidate who favors Facebook wins in the elections.
If you feel that the foregoing is a fictional example, the truth is that it is not an example but rather what happened in the previous US elections, the Facebook scandal and the investigations that were conducted to find out whether the party that interfered with Cambridge Analytica was Facebook intentional and knows what it is doing or not. But the bottom line is that it has happened and can be repeated (Facebook officially has a section to help election campaigns in dozens of countries on the best way to use it to support their candidate, and we repeat this what is done "officially")
Is iOS more privacy protection than Android?
The easy answer to this question is "yes" and the actual answer is "maybe or no." The Android system itself is not a weak system, but it may sometimes be more secure than iOS. But there are factors that make the iPhone more protective of privacy due to several factors, including, for example, updates; When a vulnerability is discovered, both Apple and Google close it, but what happens is that iOS devices for the previous 5 years receive the update, while Android devices often more than 90% of their devices do not receive this update. In other words, we are faced with a reality that says that both Apple and Google have both closed the loophole, meaning that the user of the two systems is assumed to be safe; But actually, the update does not reach the largest segment of Android users, and accordingly they remain at risk ... The second point that makes Apple more protective of privacy is the complexities of the system; Apple prefers to be more violent in monitoring and strictness of applications and setting restrictions for them, and accordingly, it is difficult to collect data from iOS, unlike Android.
So why did we mention that the actual answer is "maybe or not" .. because it is simply the one who controls the user. You may use iOS, but you download anonymous applications or jailbreak, or by granting permissions to any application to access any data, you put yourself at risk; You may use Android, but monitor what you download, download security applications, and carefully scrutinize requests for access to data sent by applications, so that your phone becomes more secure than the first person. In the end, the method of use is the one that takes the first decision in terms of security and privacy, then comes the operating system. If we compare the same person with the same use in the two systems, from our point of view, iOS will be more protective of his privacy.
last word
Protecting your privacy is up to you, and the Facebook example is a strong and stark example of the ability of major companies to control us. Imagine what Google can do when it knows where to go and has all of your photos and contacts. Imagine what Microsoft could do while you were using its system and so could Apple. Perhaps Apple and Microsoft are considered the least dangerous for the main reason, which is that data is not a source of income for them, unlike Facebook, Google and Twitter, for example, who can make you love and hate it and go to a specific place and restaurant and shape your thinking through the information that appears and those that they hide. Do not tolerate the point of privacy and think that you are more powerful than their influence; They influence even without knowing.
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Good evening everyone, brothers
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Thank you for this nice topic
Thank you for this nice topic
Use both systems and the best IOS system, a great article Burkatm
Thank you for this nice topic
Indeed, the most important thing is the method of use that determines the extent of a person's privacy, and no one denies of course that Apple is more concerned with privacy than Android and that is due to the conditions of the two systems because this is open source and the other is closed. At the end, the method of use and his experience remains the determinant and what the user wants in the end
Very excellent article, I agree with what was mentioned, thank you
All of them are hackable, in half an hour ... There is no security or privacy at all
I give you my iPhone if I penetrate it in half an hour, I consider it a gift from me to you
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Android in half an hour or less we disagree about it
But ios excuse me
And if you want to make sure, buy an iPhone and see it
I will not insult myself in buying an ugly phone that does not even deserve half its price, under the pretext of safety.
“In the end, the method of use is the one that takes the first decision in terms of security and privacy, and then comes the operating system.”
Thank you
As long as you install apps and allow them access, you are in danger
As the inventor of the Internet said, as long as your device is connected to the Internet, reaching you is easier than finding a needle in a haystack.
Thank you, Bin Sami, for the article. However, it appears that there is confusion between the breach of privacy and the breach. Hacking is theft where the thief or hacker takes advantage of credit card information, for example to steal the hacker's money or demand a ransom for infringing on the hacked device's images.
While privacy in the general sense is “monitoring and intrusion” for the purpose of benefiting from the actions of the intruder or influencing him through studies and analyses that may take time. Of course, the risk of hacking is greater, but protection from hacking falls primarily on the user because there is no completely secure system. As for privacy, the iOS system is superior so far!
To all Android users
Those who deny the insecurity of their system:
Will your denial and argument about that change anything?
The answer, of course, is no, and the whole world knows that, the writer
Bin Sami, may Allah reward him, tries to explain to you
It is simply expressed in a diluted manner
On your hearts, out of your safety
But if you are not and you are not convinced, to hell with you
You are the losers 😭😭😭
We are completely satisfied with Android, and it will be the inspiration for the rotten apple.
This is a really sober article, and it remains necessary to take into account the different countries, their systems, and their way of life, as most of our Arab countries do not affect it by monitoring Facebook and Google in matters related to the elections because we do not have elections at all, and also in the field of shopping, the shopping system in the West relies very heavily on propaganda. The Arab countries, the matter depends on local propaganda that is not related to the interests of these companies, as it does not gain anything from promoting any commodity or kind of shop except within narrow borders and in certain Arab countries there remains one very dangerous role, which is the role of incitement among groups of people and igniting hatred between these Sect and that and between this religion and that etc. and the results of this sabotage act we see present since the inception of these sites and they are closely linked to intelligence agendas and specialized institutions to influence flawed countries or peoples and trends, and this is the danger that plagues everyone. Certainly the solution is not in concealing data, as they have entered even our sleep rooms And the matter is done.
Very nice article thank you
🌚 Apple 🦋 is really smart and patient. It created a system for itself. Imagine if Apple used the Android system 😂 It would have been like LG HTC. You hear news about them once a month or not.
And a privacy issue with a shortcut, as I downloaded any application from Google or Facebook قرا Poorer on the privacy of peace
thank you. New news no longer appears in the YouTube section !?
Shikraa Yvonne Islam
An interesting, informative and informative article
The big calamity is that the Android system itself belongs to Google
It circumvents all the ways, for example, even when canceling all
Powers You find yourself forced to accept powers
Google services application in every application as a Trojan horse
google services
Also, all Google applications ask for deactivation
Revealing your identity, unlike Apple applications
Abstract:
The neck of Android users is in the hand of Google 😂😂😂
There are dangerous things in iOS, such as: The Facetime service problem has been around for years and they don't know the problem, Android has improved security at Google, with a mail message that hacked your phone.
The FaceTime crisis appeared and was resolved in a short time and became a thing of the past
I think that Apple devices are very concerned with privacy and I think its importance should be more in the Arab world in particular and the Islamic world in general, and it is necessary for the mobile user to have even simple information on how to deal with the device to preserve its privacy because some are ignorant of this matter and do not throw it into reality. In trouble, it sometimes reaches disaster
If your device is connected to the Internet, this is especially unlikely, neither from Apple nor from others. Intelligence in most countries has software and equipment to spy on you, most of which are Israeli and American equipment, and how many assassinations have occurred and are happening these days because of the false security that companies promise us, headed by Apple
Bottom line, bait elmaqdes
Android security and its weakness are in the gutter
You will not be able to change reality once you own it
Android device and your defense of it!
The article is good, but I myself found a topic about Facebook, elections, etc. that is not important in terms of safety. You may mean privacy, but most of those looking for privacy are not intellectual privacy, but privacy that makes their device secure to some extent, for example not limited to the subject of the required permissions for the applications as mentioned One of the brothers and the subject of exposing programs to the lack of censorship from companies. This is what we call privacy, that is, device privacy and protection.
Sorry p prolonged and thank you
I disagree with you that usage is the first decision maker.
When you download a program on iOS, you freely choose the permissions.
On Android, there are no options. Either you accept and download the program? Either you refuse and you will not be able to download the program at all. You are definitely forced to accept here.
Your words are correct, Fadi, I am surprised a lot of those who think that Android has any kind of protection, either you download your favorite applications, but you will pay a price for it, which is the use and sale of your data, or you remain without applications, and in either case you are not protected and it is only a matter of time until the annoying ads start to pop up From every point in your device. I feel nauseous just thinking about it ..
It is true that Apple binds us to its system, but at least it will be a more smooth experience than the rest, and when you add reliable cydia tools, you will have the best system you can have.
Shame talk about health, you can remove any of the permissions that you do not need in addition to that any application that uses the camera or the mic in the background will immediately alert you that the application used them in the background and you can remove the permission or the application with the notification also for the author of the article, so the monthly security updates from Google are sent to all devices regardless Regardless of updating the system version, even if the phone company does not update its phone, it will receive security updates
Your ignorance of these parts does not warrant you to talk about them
Also, with regard to Facebook, this happens to all systems because your information you personally put on their servers does not matter to Apple or others in addition to the fact that the media filters do not believe them except for the idiot. All American and Chinese companies collect information about their customers, without exception, or you forget the leaks and the back doors. Those who leaked to her espionage projects did not mean that she repented and was no longer spying, and there were no back doors
I accused them of ignorance ... Can you explain to them and to us how, for example, a Samsung device, for example, its last update XNUMX years ago, Google can update it security! ??
Do you work? Dozens of applications do not work if you refuse to give them a specific license that you require ....
Unfortunately he cannot explain to you and me, because there is no explanation.
My brother Fadi, review your information if you allow the option on Android to control the permissions
The first acquaintance with the issue of safety remains the user, his caution, and his security culture and privacy
The topic even needs to be taught in schools
The important thing is that it is stupid to use banking services on an unreliable device
Thank you iPhone Islam Good article
The useful bottom line is that iOS is the most secure and most of us trust it, unlike Android, the owner of the deadly virus 🤣🤣
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I wrote and created, thank you, Bin Sami, for the important topic.