Apple is forced to share the data with the federal police and other agents of the state, oftentimes (30k+ per year) without a search warrant.
If you think it’s not a risk because they don’t sell it to advertisers, think of all of this lifestyle data, times a billion people, being used nefariously to undermine human rights by someone worse than whoever you think the most repugnant US president has been.
The collection of the data is the problem, because there is a player in the game who is not Apple but has 100% access to all data that Apple has.
If it were the FBI collecting all this dragnet data in bulk, would you be concerned or alarmed?
If you think it’s not a risk because they don’t sell it to advertisers, think of all of this lifestyle data, times a billion people, being used nefariously to undermine human rights by someone worse than whoever you think the most repugnant US president has been.
The collection of the data is the problem, because there is a player in the game who is not Apple but has 100% access to all data that Apple has.
If it were the FBI collecting all this dragnet data in bulk, would you be concerned or alarmed?