Every push notification ever sent and the data it holds. Text messages, location data, credit cards, addresses and even backups. Apple's data mines are virtually endless.
Are you sure? I think it's definitely a significant enough amount to be mentioned with the others either way.
Not to mention the fact that a users interaction with Facebook is completely different from their interaction with Apple. Most people keep especially private data off of Facebook, but practically no I-phone user stops to think if a photo might be incriminating/embarrassing in the future before they take it. And that's just Photostream.
People backing up their devices to iCloud stand to lose even more.
Enough to be mentioned. To be used as the primary example and including Google as others?! Sounds more like an author that is getting paid for every Apple mention in an article title.
This should be qualified with: since they already have it via credit card companies. You give your social security number when getting a credit card for a /lot/ of reasons. And these tend to be a good reasons.
1) It actually tells you why in the article and
2) She's asking why a particular question isn't answered in a FREQUENTLY ASKED questions section but is under the settings. That's kind of the point of an FAQ - to only answer frequently asked questions.
that is why I pointed to this article, but the reason I asked this question was to let everyone know (who didn't already know) because I think it is important.
