Study states that Google Android devices send 20 times more user data to server. Google disagrees strongly (and then says everyone does it).

Study states that Google Android devices send 20 times more user data to server.  Google disagrees strongly (and then says everyone does it).

Chilling line was “Even when idle, each device connects to its back-end server on average every 4.5 minutes”.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/android-sends-20x-more-data-to-google-than-ios-sends-to-apple-study-says/

Paper: https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/apple_google.pdf