Do you read apple's privacy policy? They go to extreme lengths to ensure none of the diagnostic data they collect is personally identifiable without user permission. They invest millions into certain programs [1] to ensure they can collect data in a way that doesn't even point back to any specific identifier.
I just don't see how you could equate apple to every other company and accuse them of spying on their users when it is clearly not the case. You have options when it comes to phones and computers and only one fortune 500 company seems seriously committed to keeping their users personal info private.
There’s tons of research on the weakness and reversibility of differential privacy. Privacy doesn’t mean being or making representations that you’re being a good steward of the information you’ve spied on me to collect, it means not collecting it.
I just don't see how you could equate apple to every other company and accuse them of spying on their users when it is clearly not the case. You have options when it comes to phones and computers and only one fortune 500 company seems seriously committed to keeping their users personal info private.
[1] https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/Differential_Privacy_Over...