That Apple Android does not arouse special sympathy It is something not only obvious but also deducible if one stops to think about it. And this is something that we can actually cross over to its responsible company Google, although in this case it makes more sense to talk about a love-hate relationship, since we both see them confronting each other on many issues, shown willing to work together in other areas and even sign agreements like the one they signed between themselves to make Google the default search engine on Apple devices and browsers.

In Cupertino, they have always boasted an enormous level of privacy protection for their users, and while it is true that their policy is positively remarkable in this regard, we must not forget that recently We know the failure of their operating systems which de facto made them much less reliable in this regard than one might expect. For example, a week ago we learned that MAC addresses of devices are not fully protected, or last year about insufficient management of VPN connections.

Google for its part has always been quite questioned in this sense, and it is true that in the past she gave reasons for mistrust. Today, they seem to have improved a lot in this sense, either by choice, by not jeopardizing their position in the market, by existing regulations, by the scrutiny they are subjected to, or by a combination of the above, if well , which does not erase your history and cause, that the search engine will have to face some legal action.

In this context, last September A historic trial with the Ministry of Justice has begun (DoJ) as the accusing party and Google on the other side, trying to defend its practices and prove that it did not violate antitrust laws. And as we are used to, this type of litigation results in the creation of communications, documents, etc. related to the cases that until then remained in the private sphere.

The latest revelation in this regard is found in a document released by the US Department of Justice, an email from Eddy Cue to Tim Cook and Phil Schiller dated January 10, 2013. The content of the same is a half-baked presentation (made in Apple Keynote, understand) devoted to privacy, in which Apple stated that “Android is a massive tracking device«. Other slides of the presentation, like the one you can see in the top paragraph, compared the ecosystem of Apple and Google, and we find a timeline in which, in addition to Google, Amazon is also pointed out. , Facebook, Pinterest, Microsoft and Twitter. Interestingly, yes, there is no explicit mention of Android in the said schedule.

However, this revelation is coming a moment when even Apple is questioned in this sense. And while, as hinted at the beginning, they’ve always considered themselves big advocates of their users’ privacy, earlier this year we learned of several investigations that suggested they’d been collecting data from iOS users even when they’d let the operating system know that they they don’t want that.