What stops them from altering the deal is that they have said they won’t, and there really is no evidence to believe otherwise. If they do, then they do. Ther

What stops them from altering the deal is that they have said they won’t, and there really is no evidence to believe otherwise. If they do, then they do. There are never any guarantees about anyone’s future behavior. However just saying ‘what stops you from becoming a thief?’, does not imply that you will become a thief. There is no new capability other than what they have said. They already had far more general purpose mechanisms for analysing and searching your files already in the operating system. The leap from doing spotlight indexing to searching for the keywords ‘falun gong’ or ‘proud boys’ in your files is also simple. So is the leap from searching your photos locally for ‘dogs’, to searching locally for ‘swastikas’ and reporting back when they are found. If they decide to build some spyware, there is no need for it to be based on this. It’s a red herring.