Aside from the what the modal actually says (mine doesn't say anything about "sending" info, and I have a 2023 M2 MBP) I don't really think it's fair to put Apple in the same category as Amazon when it comes to sending data to the cloud, because they actually have more of a financial incentive to keep your data private than selling it to the highest bidder.

I also highly doubt that they will somehow later down the line magically change their minds given the millions (maybe over a billion at this point) of dollars invested in things like private cloud compute (1) and challenging the U.K. government (2) in court over E2E cloud backups.

(1) https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/

(2) https://www.reuters.com/technology/court-hearing-reported-be...