“But you’ve willed it. You signed the agreements for your phone.”
True, but I can STILL leave my phone at home if I’m going to a meeting (or Trump rally) that could EASILY be considered be turned illegal AFTER the fact. I guess I could try leaving my license plates at home for those types of meetings...but there’s now a surveillance system (at least where I live) that will capture and report that fact, real-time, to the cops.
So you slowly gave away more and more and more of your freedoms and *now* you’re calling foul?
Look - I’m not happy with where we are, either. But we all got here together.
Without going into too many details, for jobs I’ve had in the past, I wasn’t ALLOWED to take my phone to certain buildings unless it had a removeable battery and you took it out before you left your “known work location” and didn’t put it back into the phone until you either returned to that location or another location where you were allowed to have a battery in your phone.
You can guess without too much effort who might have rules like that. Even those “folks” relaxed those rules when phones stopped having removeable batteries - and when cameras that could recognize you or your car started popping up everywhere.
But, and this is just the way it is, you willing bought into all of this until you finally got to the point it bothered you. The frog in the pan of water suddenly noticing it actually got hotter. You have yourself and everyone else to blame.
I was bitching about this 30 years ago. But I didn’t stop accepting the user agreements on my nice new phones. So, there you go.