This was an opt-in issue in one OS component (albeit an important one) in one version that has since been fixed. For sure apple should not have let this happen,

This was an opt-in issue in one OS component (albeit an important one) in one version that has since been fixed. For sure apple should not have let this happen, but I don’t see this as indicative of some evil anti-privacy plot. Apple made a mistake and paid a fine for it.