Quote Originally Posted by Aloha_Shooter View Post
Apple isn't above reproach but they are not doing it anywhere near as intrusively or at the scale of Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Apple has nowhere near the investment in data mining that Google or Facebook have put in and you need to do more research yourself if you think they're anywhere near equal to Google in this. All the tech oligarchs have levels of evil in what they do but the scales aren't even in the same ball park. Apple is like the baseball backstop in my neighborhood park while Google is Yankee Stadium merged with Fenway, Candlestick, and the Astrodome.
I'm not here for a debate about which company is farming data at a higher rate but your initial post that veered of course insinuated that Apple wasn't doing it at all because they didn't need to because they made their money on their overpriced hardware. That's not accurate. If you want to protect 100% of your data you need to not use a smart phone, computer, camera, smart device or internet aware device of any kind. That ship has looooong since sailed. Acting like you're somehow good to go because you use an iPhone instead of an Android device is crazy talk and I'm sure you don't believe that.