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> What is controversial about this?

I'll predict that almost no one opted out of this for the simple reason that they didn't know this feature even existed. This is the "Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" method of faking consent.

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They show it clearly above the slider when shutting down. Since this is a feature virtually 100% of users want on. This seems appropriate.

If they aren't under a gag order, that is. If they are, you won't even know it's on.

If you don't trust the software to do what it says, then none of this matters anyway since they could have added this in silently ages ago or they could push custom firmwares out to targeted individuals to do it.

Everything is based on the trust of the OS and hardware so it's not a useful point to make.

Software, sure, but up until this I could at least trust that if I turn my iPhone off it's not spying on me. Now I don't even have that. It's amazing the people _on this site_ in particular don't see a problem with this, and think it won't be abused by three letter agencies and their foreign counterparts.

You thought you could trust that if you turn your iPhone off it’s not spying on you.

In reality a software update was all that was required to enable this tracking.

Ah, I'm sorry. Then I had a misconception about how the UI worked. I thought it was on by default and the only hint it even existed was buried in settings.

I agree, this UI is a lot better.

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