Hello matrix07
When discussing this with someone like yourself, it's often useful to also ascertain the overall worldview that you use to see the world. Are you a person that basically trusts whatever you read and see? Do you trust the news? Do you trust your side's politicians? Do you trust the big names in the corporate world?
Ask yourself this factual question: If, in the year 2021, around 14 years after the iPhone was introduced, only now, Apple is changing its iOS so that apps cannot track you - the lightbulb moment is when you ask: what was happening to your data in all those 14 years?
One of the lightbulb moments, along the way, was the realisation that apps were having access to your entire iOS contacts. That's how they can recommend that you connect with that person you know - and they know that you know.
I was shocked: how can Apple let these apps get away with this?
Note that, when the app gets access to your contacts, my guess is that they don't just read it off your phone, but they help themselves to a copy of it downloaded to their servers.
Why, only in 2021, with iOS version 14, is Apple doing something about it? Why not earlier?
