[jqpabc123]

Really?

How do you use Apple Pay without connecting a method of payment --- either a debit or a credit card? How do you store a boarding pass in Apple Pay without revealing your identity?

You do understand that all of this data gets stored on Apple's servers? Once they have this info, they know exactly who the owner of your particular iPhone is. Your identity has been surrendered --- willingly.

Every Apple device has a Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) assigned at the factory. This UUID is constantly relayed to Apple --- along with location and lots of other data.

https://www.howtogeek.com/425856/how-to-find-your-mac-iphone...

As a result, they can easily track you personally --- everything you do, everywhere you go, everything you buy with your iPhone --- both on the internet and in the real world. If they really wanted to, they can probably take pictures with your camera and listen in on your iPhone's microphone.

Bad news dude, you've been LoJacked -- your privacy is now fully in Apple's hands!

[ulfw]

Wow you must be important. Hun, I don't buy my iPhone with cash at some underground dungeon. I buy it with my credit card with my name on it at an Apple Store. They already know "who I am". And then I associate my Apple ID with my name with said phone. Oh look, they "know who I am" again. Now what? I'm a nobody. And not paranoid to the extreme. Neither am I some important spy guy like you.

[jqpabc123]

I buy it with my credit card with my name on it at an Apple Store.

Good. So now we know how you willingly "surrender your identity" to Apple for tracking purposes.

You do realize not everyone does this? You can buy an iPhone at Walmart --- using cash if you prefer.

I'm a nobody.

Really? Just a guess but "ulfw" is not your real name is it?

Imagine that --- even though you try to deny it in order to defend Daddy Apple, it turns out that you're an "important spy guy" too --- just like me.

But Apple knows exactly who you are and where you are right now, where you live, work, shop, eat, play, travel, who you spend time with, where you post anonymous comments and how much you earn and spend.

Apple probably knows you better than Mrs. ulfw. Speaking of which, they probably have photos of the two of you, maybe even audio of you doing the nasty. Hopefully you're not fooling around on Mrs. ulfw or hiding money from her. You know she can subpoena your Apple data file for the divorce proceedings.

I'm sure Apple will send you a "thank you" for surrendering and allowing them to make a few extra bucks each month subverting your worthless privacy. They really need the extra cash.

[ulfw]

You really got issues with paranoia mate. For your own sake, please get help. You'll live a much happier life when you do.

[jqpabc123]

It's not paranoia when it's true ... mate.

And the fact that you either don't know or choose to ignore it doesn't make it any less so.

https://www.unbundledlegalhelp.com/blog/can-divorce-lawyers-...

[cartoonworld]

I get the sentiment but I don't really like the denigrating tone that people commonly levy towards this issue.

I don't think its unreasonable to have a strong skepticism and even hearty distrust of these platforms which have been invited into our lives, ostensibly for the benefit of mankind, only to be treated rather callously in the best instances and negligently in the worst.

No, the op is not important. I am not important and on a grand scale individuals are rarely influential in general. I reject that somebody needs to have some kind of spy's double life to demand basic decency wrt their literal moment-to-moment physical status and location.