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Posted Mar 5, 2013 11:01 UTC (Tue) by Tobu (subscriber, #24111)
In reply to: Moving the goalposts by raven667
Parent article: Canonical reveals plans to launch Mir display server (The H)

Google also gets plenty of data: geolocation (how people move, plus supporting data like the locations of antennas and hotspots) and app installs, browsing histories for Chrome users, app usage for the ones that show their ads. Account integration enables apps to start sharing almost invisibly.


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