Google vs Samsung

Google collects a very broad range of information, including content, device details, activity, location, and partner-supplied data. In practice, using Google can create a detailed profile across many contexts.

Google may combine your data across its services, devices, and third-party sites or apps using Google tools. This enables broad profiling for personalization, measurement, and advertising.

EEA users can bring disputes in their local courts under local law. That is much more user-friendly than mandatory arbitration or distant forum clauses.

Your data may be used to tailor ads based on your interests and activity, subject to settings. Even with some limits on sensitive categories, this still supports significant behavioral advertising.

You keep ownership of your content, but grant Google a worldwide, royalty-free license to host, modify, distribute, and sublicense it. The license also covers using public content to promote Google services.

Google provides built-in tools to review, export, delete, or auto-delete data, including full account deletion and Google Takeout. This gives users meaningful control and some portability if they want to leave.

Google says it will usually give at least 30 days’ notice before updating terms and allows users to stop using the services if they disagree. This is better than silent or immediate unilateral changes.

Google says it will not reduce privacy rights without explicit consent and will give prominent notice of significant privacy changes. This is a meaningful transparency commitment.

EEA consumers get a 14-day withdrawal right and French consumers are reminded of legal guarantees for digital services and goods. These preserve statutory remedies such as repair, replacement, refund, or cancellation where applicable.

Google may scan and analyze your content with automated systems for spam, malware, illegal content, recommendations, personalization, and ads. Users should expect machine analysis of content they store or share.

Google retains data for different periods based on data type, settings, and business or legal needs, and some data may remain until account deletion. Deletion can also take time to propagate through active and backup systems.

Samsung collects extensive personal and device data, including payment, location, voice, keyboard, financing, and usage information, plus data from third parties. This creates a large privacy footprint across its products and services.

Samsung uses personal data for personalized advertising and says some sharing may be considered a sale or targeted advertising under privacy laws. Users may be profiled across Samsung and third-party properties.

Samsung and third parties use cookies, pixels, beacons, device identifiers, and analytics to track usage and ad effectiveness. This can enable monitoring across websites, apps, and devices over time.

Your information may be shared with affiliates, carriers, financing partners, repair partners, ad partners, and service providers. That broad ecosystem increases the number of entities handling your data.

Users can request access to their data, corrections, deletion, and a machine-readable copy. These rights give users practical control over information Samsung holds.

U.S. residents can opt out of sale, sharing, targeted advertising, sensitive-data processing, and voice-recognition collection. Samsung also supports browser opt-out preference signals where legally applicable.

Samsung transfers, stores, and processes personal information outside your country, including in South Korea. It says safeguards are used, but foreign laws may be less protective than your own.

Samsung says it keeps data only as long as necessary, but that period can continue for legal duties, contracts, backups, fraud prevention, or statistical purposes, and data may be anonymized instead of deleted.

Samsung says it will notify users in advance of material privacy policy changes and post the updated date. This is more transparent than silent policy updates.

Samsung says it uses physical and technical safeguards, but warns that no website, transmission, or wireless connection is completely secure. Users should not assume absolute protection.

If your content is removed and you file a DMCA counter-notice, Samsung sends your name and contact information to the claimant, and you must consent to U.S. court jurisdiction. This mainly matters for users posting content.

Samsung says its services are not directed to children and it does not knowingly collect online personal information from children under 13 without parental consent. That limits intentional child data collection.