This move by #Apple

> _“is the endorsement by one of the largest industry players of the principle that ubiquitous #spyware on consumer computing devices is normal and acceptable in free societies. […] The core question is whether we wish to normalize the sale of personal computing devices that come preinstalled with spyware outside the control of the user and owner, however noble the purpose to which that spyware is initially put. The answer free societies have given to that question for the past five decades is the right one: No.”_

https://www.cato.org/blog/apples-iphone-now-built-surveillance