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title: "Who would you trust more with your data, Apple or the government?"
description: "A poll shows 87% trust Apple over government with their data. Google and Amazon would almost certainly misuse it."
date: "2018-05-08T00:00:00.000Z"
canonical: "https://www.antonsten.com/articles/who-would-you-trust-more-with-your-data-apple-or-the-government/"
---

> The theory is that one highly-protected database could be safer than having our personal data scattered throughout thousands of different databases.
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> The question is who could be trusted to be the central repository for personal data? The piece suggests that governments, Google, Amazon and Apple could all be candidates.
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> — [Who would you trust more with your data, Apple or the government?](https://9to5mac.com/2018/05/07/privacy-poll-apple-government/)

It's an interesting topic and one that I think we should have a more open and serious discussion about. Given that the poll is on 9to5Apple, a website that mainly attracts Apple supporters, the results are biased but it's still interesting that Apple scores 87% of the votes while the government is below 3%, ahead of Google (1.6%) and Amazon (0.5%). I'm not even sure the people that voted for Amazon are serious, if they are I would love to hear their argument.

I have no doubts that neither Apple nor the government would ever sell my data so for me it's merely a case of who I think would have better security measurements in place. iCloud was hacked years ago but so has most governments. With Google and Amazon, I'm 100% confident that they would sell the data, or at least misuse it.