Apple to pay $95 million to settle claims it used Siri to eavesdrop on customers

[snot]

3. The surveillance via cell phones is off the charts.

I keep my settings as privacy-protective as possible, avoid using it for anything but phone calls and texts that I wouldn't mind having be overheard and for taking photos; and try not to share my cell number if I can possibly avoid it.

But it's getting harder and harder to avoid sharing the number -- everyone's trying to acquire/require it even when completely unnecessary, supposedly for our protection! Which infuriates me, because the cell phone is just about the least secure device ever invented, and the only security breaches I've ever suffered were when companies I gave my data to were hacked -- and the more of my personal data a co. has, the more will be stolen.