Android, Chrome send 50 times the amount of user data to Google servers than iOS, Safari does

A research paper written by Vanderbilt University Professor Douglas Schmidt claims that Google's servers receive 10 times the amount of user data from an idle Android phone as Apple's servers receive from an idle iPhone. This comes after a class action lawsuit was filed against Google for falsely representing how its Location Data and History work. The search giant recently made changes to its website that gives users a more accurate look at what Google is tracking.

In Professor Schmidt's paper, he says that an idle Android handset running the Chrome browser in the ...

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