[digitalzombie]

You can harvest data and anonymize it. My friend at Google supposedly is doing this via research at Google. I'm not going to say Google care about our privacy as much as Apple but they are researching this probably for medical and for when opportunity arises. To be perfectly honest I think Apple's stance on privacy is all marketing, there are cases where they refused to unlock phones for the FBI but there are other cases where they ship recordings of your talk to SIRI to a third party company.

[DeonPenny]

Yeh most company anonymize it because "data snooping" makes your algorithm worse. But try telling a layman that.

[saagarjha]

> You can harvest data and anonymize it.

Presumably the anonymization needs to happen prior to collection for it to be effective?