And speculating - wouldn't surprise me too much that Apple is actually weak there. Apple's approach to privacy seems to be mainly "we just don't get your data on our servers", which could be resulting them in ignoring how to build an actual robust privacy program on their side for other things.
Even though it might not be intentional, Apple is lagging at such tooling.
I would imagine AWS and Microsoft also have a thorough tooling solution.
Apple might have a handful of employees misuse data. Google will do it on purpose, at scale.
You obviously could back this hearsay up with actual evidence I assume?
Like, sure it is hearsay, but what do you want from the guy? Most of us are sharing anecdotes that we hope we be helpful to other HNers, most of the time. If anything, I think a lot of people look to the experience of other users here as the advantage.
If I tell you that while working at unnamed multi-national finance company we wrote software used for what I would consider incredibly immoral, but not illegal (in the US) purposes, I don't have any right to be believed, but I also expect most people would believe me, because they know how these things go in real life, oftentimes in their own organizations.
The only time these rules might be able to be 'broken' is to get data to fix bugs with the person's consent.