Tim Cook can rail against the digital stalking of the "data industrial complex" because Apple isn't built to amass, analyze, and sell the data that they do -- a

Tim Cook can rail against the digital stalking of the "data industrial complex" because Apple isn't built to amass, analyze, and sell the data that they do -- and could -- collect. I would like to know, however, how much they are being paid in servicing warrants for information about their customers. Every Apple device phones home to Apple with massive amounts of data about apps used, where you have been, etc. Officially this is for debugging purposes and so that Apple engineers have in-the-field data to reference for improving their devices. It's also a wealth of information that could be sold at some future point... and it's not like Apple is on record as using their massive cash reserve to pay Contempt of Court fines for telling the Feds to pound sand when they come around with a blanket warrant for all usage info about a person of interest.