Source: Michael Tsai
Apple enabled a privacy-invasive feature by default in macOS 15.3 that transmitted user data every 15 minutes, demonstrating that even explicit refusal to participate doesn't prevent data collection when a company controls the operating system. This is a business model where consent exists as theater, and the actual default is extraction. For consumers trying to own their relationship with technology, the lesson is stark: operating system-level defaults override user choice, making individual settings toggles functionally meaningless against corporate scale.