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> Relying on Apple to do the right thing when they're sent a bunch of data which has some use to them, and to their users, if they keep it and run statistical analysis against it, is like relying on that handshake agreement to store some of your belonging in your kindly old neighbors shed.

No, it's relying on this being disaligned with their profit incentives. They've made a selling point of their products being privacy-focused, and actions that go against that directly impact the profitability of these products.

There have been several cases where data was mistakenly collected. Nobody's perfect! And in every one of those cases, they've gone above and beyond in explaining what went wrong and how they'll prevent those situations from occurring in the future. In several cases, they've even published white papers pushing forward the current state of the art on preserving privacy while collecting the minimal data necessary for services to function.

Apple is not Google and Facebook. The latter two have direct profit incentive to maximize data collection and analysis of you, personally. Apple wants to sell you consumer devices, and—outside of specific counterexamples like Siri—collecting your data rarely aligns with those profit incentives.