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Allegedly “deleted” not allegedly resurfacing. Thank god for our security apparatus overlords for mantaining permanent backups for posterity sake.

So much for Apple’s We take privacy seriously tag line

I'm not sure it's fair to make such damning assumptions based on alleged behavior.

A boring explanation is that they have some other cloud service installed. I have loads of duplicates from Google Photos [1].

Both pictures on local storage and Icloud are reappearing as per comments [1].

The privacy line is marketing. Only used if advantageous to Apple. See for example how they don’t use it in all markets.