There is a good book on the American surveillance apparatus Means of Control by Byron Tau. People are a lot more watched than they think.

The Apple example is well-known because it is an exception. Much more common is not only compliance but making an entire business out of selling private data to the government.

https://theintercept.com/2022/04/22/anomaly-six-phone-tracki...

It really doesn’t matter that China is worse. It’s not a competition. The fact that people in other places have even less privacy doesn’t make me feel better.