Re: Academics Probe Apple's Privacy Settings...

Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

 
Academics probe Apple's privacy settings and get lost and
confused
 
Just disabling Siri requires visits to five submenus
 
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/05/apple_apps_privacy_study/
 
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Copied this post from another newsgroup as reading the article
brought up this gem...
 
"The authors also conducted a survey of Apple users and quizzed
them on whether they really understood how privacy options
worked on iOS and macOS, and what apps were doing with their
data."
 
Which all sounds fine. After all, a survey of Apple users seems
a fair way to conduct investigation... every study needs some
research behind it.
 
BUT, it carries on...
 
"While the survey was very small – it covered just 15
respondents – the results indicated that Apple's privacy
settings could be hard to navigate."
 
15 users! 15?! That's like conducting a survey among members of
your own family. How can anyone write a serious article on a
phone that has over a billion users worldwide based on a survey
of just fifteen people?

For a detailed study like this - 60-90 minute interviews with each
participant - it is unrealistic to have hundreds/thousands of participants.
The authors say the numbers are small themselves and don't make any
grandiose claims. It is interesting nonetheless.

Has journalism really become this bad?
Or does "The Register" need the 'clicks' that badly?!

This is the bigger question. Why did elreg feel the need to push this
small, qualitative study?