Apple’s CES Privacy Claim Is Misleading

Apple sells Google access to its product users

A monorail train plastered with a Google advertisement passes a giant sign from Apple on a building as preparations are underway for the CES 2019 show, Jan. 6, 2019, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Apple is taking a shot at rivals such as Google on the data privacy front with the message reading "What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone." ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images

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Apple is taking advantage of the fact that the general public does not understand the company’s surveillance and data-mining business practices in regard to its privacy claim at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).