My phone informed me today there is terms and conditions associated with my (stressing ownership) phone's NFC interface.

Pretty sure I'm not renting it.

My friend showed me yesterday a sim card with tiny writing claiming it remains the property of the telco.

Are you seeing where this legal claim of ownership is headed?

What's the bet buried in their many adhesion contracts that I agree to grant them the copyright of all the original information I generate with it. Like this post.

If they get this baby 💩 to stick, then they obviously will want to sell it to the AI transformer generator matrixes and then pass that to the NSA to help them automatically profile us.

The entire thrust of the efforts of telcos and IT companies since the late 70s is to create a precedent that conflates copyright with persons and thus legally enslave people.

If you 'substantially modify' your DNA to comport to a claim of intellectual property of enough of your DNA then you are in breach and become a ward of the patent owner entity.

Over my dead body, emphasising my inviolable claim of ownership of said corpse.