There is absolutely no reason they can’t pass a federal law and then still allow states to have a more restrictive law. It is stupid to add a preemption barring more stringent laws.

But really no laws are strict enough against data harvesting companies.

It’s not worse than nothing for those of us stuck in backward ass Red states

It would have to be super old. My 2015 and ‘16 iOS devices were fine. The only thing I had to remove was my 2010 white MacBook (which I just keep around to run home media anyway).

It’s not automatically on, but after the update it pops up on your screen telling you it is now available and asking if you want to opt in or not.

What? TNG is only 35 years old, so what’s with the 50 years claim?

On the eve of battle, on a cold and windless night, an old general turned to a young soldier.

“Tomorrow,” said the master, “you will know fear.”

The young soldier — who had not yet experienced the agony of war — looked at the general with quizzical eyes, “How will I know fear if I do not know what it looks like?”

The general replied, “You will know fear because it speaks very fast and it speaks very loud…”

“If that is how fear acts, recognizing it is easy.” But as the young soldier considered the general’s advice, she asked the question facing us now, “Once I know Fear, how do I defeat it?”

Even so, I come to ask myself the same question that young soldier asked that general all those years ago: “How do I defeat fear?”

The general’s answer: “the only way to defeat fear is to tell it ‘No’.”

No. We will not take shortcuts on the path to righteousness.

No. We will not break the rules that protect us from our basest instincts.

No. We will not allow desperation to destroy moral authority.

I am guilty of all these things.

Some say that in life there are no second chances; experience tells me that this is true.

We can only look forward. We have to be torch-bearers: casting the light so we may see our path to lasting peace. We will continue exploring, discovering new worlds, new civilisations.

Yes. That is the United Federation of Planets.

Yes. That is Starfleet

Yes. That is who we are

And who we will always be.

I don’t understand why states can’t just have more stringent requirements and the federal one being the bare minimum

Because Siri is the engine behind all voice commands to the phone. If you use voice to text, like I am right now, that relies on Siri. So you can turn off the search queries, but the engine still has to work if you want it to recognise your voice for anything, and it’s also the AI behind transcribing voicemails and voice memos.

That’s @snooggums@kbin.social’s point

DOJ needs to fuck off. Of people want to use an inferior product like android they’re free to, but nobody else should have to suffer for their bad decisions

Apple really doesn’t advertise. The data never leaves apple. Everyone else sells your information.

“Apple… is the most privacy-conscious firm out there. Apple only stores the information that is necessary to maintain users’ accounts. This is because their website is not… reliant on advertising revenue. “

Source: https://9to5mac.com/2022/08/25/apple-collect-less-data-than-other-companies/

Apple doesn’t sell my data and information to third parties.

I don’t see how they have much ad revenue, because none of the Apple apps have ads

The MVNOs throttle and deprioritise in high traffic times too.

Also, throttling at 30GB is a lot Different than at 300GB which is what I went from on Visible to Verizon (visible is Verizon’s prepaid service, and it still worked like an MVNO by slowing down during the day and rush hour while Verizon clicked along streaming 4K)

Apple

It seems to get derided a lot here, but none of your data is harvested and tied to you or sold. It’s aggregated and anonymised if it’s sent off device, and I stopped using Proton drive when you could finally encrypt iCloud storage. I even use their email as default now since it’s not reading my messages and selling my info like outlook started doing.

I stopped using google completely several years ago. I deleted my accounts and information. I created a burner for YouTube since there’s no other option but otherwise I refuse any google software (and I use iOS).

The Reddit app won’t load anything when I have my VPN on. I have to turn it off to login to Facebook or Instagram, but once I turn it back on works

Which is why I commented OP should have included the definition for decentralised messaging application. I had to look at the drop-down list to figure out what it was talking about because I was thinking it meant signal, telegram, or WhatsApp

Nobody uses third-party messaging apps here; it’s not just those two old people. There’s just no need. MMS has horrible quality videos and can’t be added and removed from a group chat and breaks functionality for everyone else in the chat.

That’s just for health insurance though, not life insurance

Tell me how I can get a star ID or a passport without a Social Security card

I can’t even donate plasma without my Social Security card