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The carbon footprints of iPhones alone sold in a single quarter is in the millions of tons.

Yes, and humans exhale almost a billion of tons in the same period. I don't think just measuring the total is very helpful; you'd need to analyze carefully the value of each things, and what they replaced. How many carbons were saved when teenagers start defining themselves based more on their smartphones that on their cars?

You point to a couple of privacy breaches versus Facebook whose entire business model is based on breaching privacy.

Sure, but being less bad than Facebook is not an achievement.