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You sir are a blinded moron who is so enamored with a product that you ignore all else, including the thread topic.

You are only here screwing with me because I defiled your worshipful servant, Mr. Apple...

The phone number you speak of is part of the personal data that your carrier and I would assume many other agencies, friends, acquaintances and family have. The information might very well be on their own phones and thus are part of the data that is collected by the State, from which they glean whatever information they need about you, should they desire to. All they have to do is match it up with the un-tagged data that they collect from other communications, with data they get from hacks, with data they get from legal state access.

In China, the government there, basically a authoritarian autocratic regime, requires this data on every person under it’s wings, including those who travel to and from China but it’s not exclusive to China anymore.

Many of these travelers use I-phones....or did, because the servers were not located in China.

Well now they are..

I keep having to drag you by the nads back to the topic of this thread, and that is Apple’s cooperation with the Chinese minders.

Believe me when I tell you that they would not have threatened apple with the banning of their devices if they had no use for that information that they can now access at their pleasure without a hack.

Their banning of certain Intel chips and chipsets is also related to this. The CCP wants root control over it’s devices and they will get it. So they are not yet done with Apple..

Much easier and less disruptive to brick devices then to shut down the networks when they need to control communications. Also much easier to monitor it’s people and those who enter the country, as well as those in the special administrative areas.

Apple just helped them out, thinking that they might lose business. As has Yahoo, others..

I really don’t care about apple, it’s not the point.

The point is the ever increasing and often forced cooperation between private communications companies, device makers, and the State. Whether in China or now the US.

Hope you don’t have a Facebook account...they have what is essentially warrantless access now.

We are now a official tyranny...we have progresses beyond the soft stuff. perhaps you should consider getting rid of the devices that betray you every day.

I have eliminated at least one....the smart phone.

So just who is the dummy here?

Dummy..