> spy on you and report you to the authorities if you do bad things Pedantic correction: while the phone would spy on you to pre-calculate + embed "you are a b

> spy on you and report you to the authorities if you do bad things Pedantic correction: while the phone would spy on you to pre-calculate + embed "you are a bad guy doing a bad thing" metadata into photos, the phone wouldn't then report you to the authorities. You had to choose to sync your photos into iCloud Photos (i.e. expose them in cleartext to Apple), for Apple to then discover the embedded "you are a bad guy" metadata out of them, and use it to report you to the authorities.