This has come up before and the current thought is that Apple won't do this because people themselves are idiots and forget their passwords and ask Apple to reg

This has come up before and the current thought is that Apple won't do this because people themselves are idiots and forget their passwords and ask Apple to regain access to their iCloud data. Obviously if it's encrypted with the password Apple would not be able to allow them to regain access. I don't see any reason why encrypting it couldn't be a toggle switch, not on by default, though.