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.

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

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.

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

Yes. Apple doesn’t sell the data