Visually it’s nicer than Google Maps… I still prefer the amount of data about points of interest that Google Maps has. Apple’s reliance on Yelp is a bit cumbersome. Overall, I trust Apple a bit more from a privacy standpoint though.
IIRC Apple does apply differential privacy - sending wrong information randomly about your trips to themselves, where they then average over all users to get rid of the noise they added so it becomes useful aggregate data.
And they never submit the start and end locations of the trips. Maybe the privacy is still terrible but it’s way way way better than Google’s IMO
Still… its closed source. I can tell you that my closed source code that i only have access, doesnt track your movement everywhere. “Trust me bro” move. The first sentence doesnt make sense at all.
You’re absolutely right that closed source makes it much harder to verify that software does what it’s supposed to do. I’m not sure in the absence of ability to view the source how we can be sure that Apple does what they say. (maybe network packet sniffing? Are there privacy audits? Must it be disclosed in GDPR requests?) I hope someone with the appropriate qualifications is able to chime in on this.
I’m sorry for my poor explanation, and unfortunately I do not specialise in differential privacy. My layman’s understanding is that they add noise to the segments of your navigation before sending it to themselves. Once they receive the noisy data, if they average out many samples, the noise is “averaged out” in aggregate statistics. I hope an expert on differential privacy is able to chime in.
I’ve used Apple Maps for years and it’s never steered me wrong. It’s no better or worse than any other map app.
Visually it’s nicer than Google Maps… I still prefer the amount of data about points of interest that Google Maps has. Apple’s reliance on Yelp is a bit cumbersome. Overall, I trust Apple a bit more from a privacy standpoint though.
Both have terrible literally terrible Privacy.
IIRC Apple does apply differential privacy - sending wrong information randomly about your trips to themselves, where they then average over all users to get rid of the noise they added so it becomes useful aggregate data.
And they never submit the start and end locations of the trips. Maybe the privacy is still terrible but it’s way way way better than Google’s IMO
Still… its closed source. I can tell you that my closed source code that i only have access, doesnt track your movement everywhere. “Trust me bro” move. The first sentence doesnt make sense at all.
They added noise and then removed the noise?
You’re absolutely right that closed source makes it much harder to verify that software does what it’s supposed to do. I’m not sure in the absence of ability to view the source how we can be sure that Apple does what they say. (maybe network packet sniffing? Are there privacy audits? Must it be disclosed in GDPR requests?) I hope someone with the appropriate qualifications is able to chime in on this.
I’m sorry for my poor explanation, and unfortunately I do not specialise in differential privacy. My layman’s understanding is that they add noise to the segments of your navigation before sending it to themselves. Once they receive the noisy data, if they average out many samples, the noise is “averaged out” in aggregate statistics. I hope an expert on differential privacy is able to chime in.
You can try Organic Maps if you have a pressing need for privacy in your maps app.
It seems… okay… when I used it. No support for android or apple auto integration though.