Google is building surveillance and personal information harvesting systems designed to minimise individual privacy and maximise government control. It’s unavoidable because Google’s systems are based on the fundamental principle of gathering and analysing as much information about people and their behaviour as possible.

Apple have bent over backwards to ensure they themselves, and anyone in their data centres, have as little personal information about their customers as possible. FaceID and TouchID don’t Store face scans, only secure hashes of the data and only in an inaccessible local data store. AI analysis of most user data and activities is done locally on the device, pulling down reference data from the cloud as necessary rather than pushing the user data up. User activity data is protected by powerful new anonymising techniques. User personal data that is stored centrally e.g. for syncing, is encrypted end to end wherever possible so it’s only accessible to the user.

I’m not saying they store no unencrypted user data centrally or know nothing about user activities, but they have gone to crazily extreme lengths to avoid it. When law enforcement has gone to Apple with warrants to get user data or open up user phones, Apple has often been able to honestly say it has squat.

A lot of people here know all this and are just taking it into account, that’s all.