I think you started derailing when speaking about data collection (by the likes of Meta). Most of their data comes from cookies that track nearly every website because nearly every website has Google analytics or Facebook comments embedded. Their bots and reach extend everywhere. On every site.

These kinds of businesses have entire infrastructures built just to get your info. Any info. They have working composites and models for nearly every human. I mean think about what you can learn about a person if you just followed them around every day. It actually gets pretty scary because that’s what’s happening. We are constantly being spied on, watched or monitored to a degree.

IPs also leak a metric ton of data, like geo location, ISP/carrier name, even your postal code.

These companies have myriad of ways to siphon data from the websites you visit, the social connections you make and the data they get from the services used.

It’s less about your phone and more about how many parties have access to the feature or service.