Hey, Apple! 'Opt Out' Is Useless. Let People Opt In

Like Google and Amazon before it, Apple has been caught sending voice assistant recordings to contractors, who listen to snippets of your requests and conversations, without telling anyone. In response to the privacy concerns that raises, Apple says it will eventually give users control over whether their Siri data gets sent to third-party eavesdroppers, but it's unclear whether that consent will be opt-in or opt-out. Letting people opt out of data collection is better than not giving them any choice at all. But for decades, that's been the extent of the conversation. It gives too many giant tech companies plausible deniability for the rampant hoovering of your personal information, and allows them to implicitly blame the victim when they overreach: Don't get angry at us, you could have opted out this whole time.