Razor Wrote:
"Basically I found your full name, your age. Where you live, Who shares occupancy with you, your phone number, your prefered types of camera, what OS you have, Software packages you prefer, etc etc ... ... All in about 15 mins without the need for you to use any Apple devices..."

1 - The stuff that corrupt governments put out there can be had on anyone by anyone, electrol registers, all that shit etc.
2 - Anything other than my name, age, and address, has been put there willingly be me, on forums, it wasn't datamined out of me and sold to you.

Pretty pointless trying to hide your name, age, and address on the internet considering you'd have to be a fraudster to be able to purchase something online otherwise, unless you relied on someone else to buy things for you.  You only know what things I like, the cameras etc, because I've willingly put that out there during discussions, you're talking about forum posts, they weren't leaked to you through a form of datamining.  All you had to do to find those posts about the cameras is search for pumeco, you were able to find this out thanks to Google's datamining.

Razor Wrote:
"Pumeco rightly pointed out the only way to protect your data is to not give it away."

Exactly, so while we can't stop certain things being published, those of use that are not sheep don't go around feeding Apple devices their fingerprints, face recognition, travel tracks, conversations, emails, voiceprints, health statistics and god knows what else they feed to those devices.

Info to be found on a General Citizen:
Name
Age
Address
Anything posted willingly by that Citizen

Info to be found on a Sheep Citizen:
Name
Age
Address
Health Statistics
Finger prints
Voice Prints
Face Recognition
Purchase History
Movement History
Conversation History
Etc ... etc ... etc...

And here's the bit you don't seem to grasp about my rants:  Even if they have no intention to sell this data, the fact remains that it is being recorded all by a single device and company, and stored.  The device is digital, therefore it can be hacked.  When this sort of data gets into the wrong hands they'll have more data then they could ever wish for.  Ironic then, that you agree with me that the best way to avoid this crap is to not give them this data in the first place.  It's like with those RadioShack fucks right now, I don't think it's right that their customers should be faced with the threat of having their data sold-off to the highest bidder.  The problem is that they've managed to slowly brainwash society into believing that you have to give-up your privacy or some other form of data, just to buy something from them.

WRONG:  It should that be they make something, you pay them money for it, deal over, with no privacy-invasion contract involved.  And if they don't work like that, simply avoid them.  Humans have a right to privacy, and that's all there is to it.  The selling of customer data should be illegal, they should not be allowed to specify the exchange of any customer data in any form, in any contract.  Being a sheep is a bad idea in todays datamining-friendly climate, because there's a big difference between data that is out there through all the government bullshit, and data that is willingly fed to companies by users of these devices.  Oh, and I couldn't care less whether protecting my privacy draws attention to myself, either.

@RorrKonn
Ah man, well look on the bright side, at least you know I'm not a teenager now :-D