Your Wired link shows how to turn all that off, which is what I just did.
turn off the NameDrop feature for your iPhone?
Start by opening your Settings, then
tap General and AirDrop.
Go to the section labeled Start Sharing By and toggle Bringing Devices Together to the left.
On this page, you can also change the settings for who can AirDrop information to your phone...
Even though you shouldn’t worry very much about the NameDrop feature on your iPhone, it’s important to be aware of how your smartphone can leak personal data. A good place to start is by checking to see whether you’re sharing location data in a way you don’t actually intend to. Another basic step to keep your iPhone secure is to update the software as soon as the new option becomes available, so Apple can patch potential exploits.
Calm down. Apple's gonna be okay. If you want to privacy proof your phone, you can do all that in Settings.
Go methodically through the stuff that you want 'on' or 'off.' Think about if you've ever used it. If not, turn 'off.'
If you don't want Siri -- and you shouldn't, not for one damn thing -- go through every Siri related connection and shut it all off.
Go through all your apps and turn off those you don't use. Even delete some from your home page that you've never used and likely won't.
The big thing to keep you from being manipulated is to turn off Notifications for anything but a phone call or text -- even then, just use sound so you can turn your ringer on or off.
Apple is better at privacy proofing than any Android.
It's Zuckerberg using AI to leak facial recog and other FB stuff that folks should keep an eye on -- he's got a 2 billion human market out there, only one AI lab researcher, a sort-of AI lab, but really, no research, just AI use for profit. Zuck wants his AI to identify faces in photos, recognize spoken commands & translate between languages, and so, bots would patrol Facebook digital world take instructions like China's WeApp does: want an airline reservation? ask a bot. Order flowers? a bot will do it. But none of this will be in the open and transparent world of other AI uses, just in Zuck's corporate profit moat. Remember what he did with Cambridge Analytica and how he let other real world shit happen. He's been in front of Congress a couple of times, and he'll have to be back in 2024 if he's nailed for anything happening because of Facebook.
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