While pondering the purchase of the iPhone, I’ve carefully studied much of what’s been written. To setup the phone, you must have an iTunes account. The syncing software is iTunes. You have to set-up your phone and sync your email, calendar and contacts through iTunes, while connected to the internet. And who is on the other end of iTunes??? They now have direct access to your phone, your email and passwords, your contacts and your schedule.

WHAT AN INVASION OF PRIVACY!!!

In addition, I purchased (and subsequently returned) an iMac. When setting it up, I WAS FORCED to register it before I could continue setting it up. After entering my information, (which I falsified), I was directly connected to APPLE.COM and the built-in CAMERA immediately SNAPPED A PICTURE OF ME, without my expectation or approval, and sent it into APPLE along with my registration information.

WHAT AN INVASION OF PRIVACY!!!

What kind of information repository is APPLE developing? And just how are they planning to use this information? And how valuable could that information be to OTHERS with similar standards of invasiveness?

It begs scrutiny.