Good post—it is the banality of evil.
I am old fashioned and refuse to download any Apps—and I use an el cheapo cell phone—and that only to make calls when absolutely necessary.
I forgot to mention biometrics. Stuff like fingerprinting for device access has been around for a while, but they really want to push this stuff. For your personal security, of course. heh. Law enforcement wants license plate readers, facial recognition, and real time tracing. In many places they already do. I don’t blame them. I know I would want it if I worked in law enforcement. But law enforcement aren’t the developers of this technology. They are just consumers of it.
Think about that a little bit.
Well, I’m guilty. Phone has 499 apps as Cache Cleaner counts them (user+system), but am with you in rarely if ever using thr phone for voice calls.