[upofadown]

The incentive is to claim to collect as little as possible. What a company actually collects is between them and any influential state actor that can manage to make use of the data in secret. A company can't support the needs of such an actor and law enforcement at the same time.

[slt2021]

you care confusing collecting data with persisting user data.

it is easy to prove what your app collects from OS's permission model and web traffic. People are less interested in whether you store it for future use or discard it immediately after receiving.

Even if you claim you don't persist any of user data, you would still be collecting it